The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp207-238 No 7414
19 August 2006

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   208

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Wake-up call 208
This week's Journal could make for rather disheartening reading — particularly for community pharmacists. The two items that triggered this view are Broad spectrum and the third Original paper in our series on commissioning services, both contributed by the Workforce Academy at the University of Manchester's school of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences
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News & Features   209-216

News summary, inclusing R&D  209-215
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Lead stories
-Medicines management needs more pharmacy input
-Smart card not necessarily needed to claim IT allowance
-Airport security measures affect carriage of liquid medicines
-Pharmacy services need more effective promotion
-Review casts doubt on some new pharmacy roles
-Fourth HIV drug offers no benefit
-ACE inhibitors may be of benefit in atherosclerosis
-Interventions help customers curb harmful drinking
-Progress on pandemic flu vaccine

Singing from the same hymn sheet — how the Society is in tune with Foster 216
Although Andrew Foster's review of non-medical professional regulation has thrown up a set of difficult questions and challenges for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, it also proposes many regulatory changes in line with how the Society is already doing things. Tom Moberly reports
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Products   217

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Products   217
-SPC changes
-Discontinued products
-Prescriptions products
-Supply issues
-Products miscellany
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Recalls   217
-Pabrinex intravenous high potency injection
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Drug tariff updates   217
-England and Wales (August prescriptions)
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Broad Spectrum   218

Under pressure to cope with demand 218
By Wendy Gidman
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Letters   219-222

-Emergency supply
-MURs
-Dispensing
-The profession
-Homoeopathy
-Herbal medicine
-Birdsgrove House
-Fellowship
-The Journal
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Vision for pharmacy   223

Articles index

Tackling chronic pain in primary care 223
Pharmacy and physiotherapy have come together in Fife to tackle chronic pain. Clare Bellingham reports
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Original papers   224-226

Commissioning services and the new community pharmacy contract
Uptake of enhanced services 224-226
By Fay Bradley, Rebecca Elvey, Darren Ashcroft and Peter Noyce
Aim — To identify (i) the enhanced services primary care trusts had commissioned, (ii) whether the service had been commissioned before the start of the new community pharmacy contract, (iii) the contractual option used, (iv) the number of community pharmacies providing the service and (v) their plans for commissioning in the future
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   227-230

Recent articles

Vitamin D — function and uses  227-230
Vitamin D has a number of essential functions in the body as well as several established clinical uses. In this article, Pamela Mason discusses the vitamin’s metabolism and interactions and looks at growing evidence of its involvement in other conditions
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Articles   231-233

Postgraduate education for advanced practitioners — a novel approach to course design 231-233
Stephen Tomlin, Ian Costello, Andrzej Kostrzewski and Soraya Dhillon describe a new approach to developing learning to support advanced practitioner development which builds on the positive experiences of how adults learn, education theory, clinical practice and peer review
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Onlooker   234

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Academic medicine crisis? 234
In the 22 July edition of The Lancet, a primary care physician from Belgium and a cardiologist from Texas raise the intriguing question of whether academic medicine is neglecting the value of clinicians for training purposes in favour of medical researchers. Academic medicine, it is argued, requires not only good scientists and researchers but also good clinicians who will close the gap between the laboratory and everyday general practice
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Protecting the gentle and intelligent vulture 234
Byron commented in ‘The bride of Abydos’ that: “The rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, / Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime”. People have for centuries taken a poor view of vultures, but their reputation may not be deserved
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Attach greater value to centuries-known benefits of exercise 234
In our modern world we tend to discover ancient truths that have in fact been around for centuries, and then proclaim them as if they were new
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Actions and attitudes: the sense of responsibility is paramount 234
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Parliamentary briefing to inform opinion on hospital pharmacy 235
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BPC-PJ careers forum to be free to all 235
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Knowledge and skills guidance published to help NHS pharmacists 235
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Display of trade catalogues 236
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BPC extends its reach through Society website 236
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First title in European postgraduate pharmacy series published 236
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Pharmacist promotes healthy living at Royal Welsh Show 237
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Emergency supplies of prescription-only medicines 237
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Amendment to the veterinary section of the ‘Medicines, ethics and practice’ guide 237
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Official notices 2001 to present

Statutory Committee inquiries 238
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Society meetings 238
-British Pharmaceutical Conference (4-6 September)
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Resources 217
-New Pharmacist
-Ramadan and Diwali
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Wants 217
-CARE study patient recruitment
-Translation of commonly used pharmacy labels
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