The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp239-264 No 7415
26 August 2006

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Articles   240

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Planning well ahead 240
Back in May, the President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Hemant Patel, told the annual general meeting that 2006 would be a year of consultation for pharmacy. He urged all members to take part in an impending range of consultations, giving their views to help shape the future direction of the profession
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Herceptin headache 240
With the approval of trastuzumab (Herceptin) for the treatment of early stage HER2-positive breast cancer by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence this week, many primary care trusts will be bracing themselves for an onslaught of requests for treatment. A strong planning process will be required to deal with both the financial and organisational tasks of implementing the guidance over the next three months
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News & Features   241-244

News summary  241-244
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Lead stories
-Public debate on access to cancer drugs needed
-Trastuzumab for early HER2-positive breast cancer approved by NICE
-Society and PSNC support plans to scrap CD script retention
-Cancer patients skip doses
-Inhaled budesonide/formoterol combination used as required may be beneficial for asthma patients
-PSNC reminds pharmacists to be diligent with their MUR records
-Pharmacist telephone counselling can improve patient outcomes

POEMs   244

POEMs series

Excessive lowering of BP causes more harm than good 244
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Products   245

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Products   245
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Supply issues
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Announcements   245
-Abelcet and Myocet
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Letters   246-250

-Department of Health
-Work pressures
-Homoeopathy
-Controlled drugs
-Safety
-Oxygen service
-Compliance aids
-Needle exchange
-Paracetamol
-Smoking cessation
-The profession
-Retention fees
-The Society
-Public image
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Original papers   251-253

Commissioning services and the new community pharmacy contract
Governance and performance management 251-253
By Rebecca Elvey, Fay Bradley, Darren Ashcroft and Peter Noyce
Aim — To identify and describe governance and performance management activity in primary care trusts in England relating to the provision of pharmaceutical services
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Articles   254-257

How problem-based learning supports continuing professional development 254-255
In this article, Sue Shaw, Julia Lacey, Briony Leighton and Bruce Warner describe the role of the teacher-practitioner in supporting postgraduate problem-based learning. They argue that this learning method may be a potent model for continuing professional development
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Pharmacy in a New Age: start of a new era? 256-257
A decade ago, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Pharmacy in a New Age project created a vision of the future for the profession. Marcus Longley looks at how successful Pharmacy in a New Age was and what can be learnt from it
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Onlooker   258

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A role for gender in academic medicine 258
There have long been arguments over the relative aptitude of men and women to take a leading role in human societies, and over the need to discover whether gender should automatically disqualify any individual from being a leading or guiding factor in the competition for social advancement
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Straight from the horse's mouth: how equine emotions are expressed 258
An interesting comment regarding communication between animals appears in the 16 June issue of Science
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Better system of classification required for harmful and illegal drugs 258
The allocation of illegal drugs into classes A, B and C according to vague criteria involves inconsistencies that worry those who know far more about drugs and their problems than the committees that draw up lists arbitrarily
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Society makes one-to-one CPD training available at BPC 2006 259
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Society co-operates with The Independent to produce a sixth pharmacy careers supplement 259
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Last chance to take part in Society's consultations on PPI and Code of Ethics 259
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Clinical governance e-learning programme is now easier to access 259
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The BPC video booth – a novel way to tell the Society what you think 261
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New guide to the management of patients with schizophrenia 262
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New book on LC-MS applications in toxicology 262
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Library's later opening and longer loan periods262
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PJ editor to feature in BBC2's Coast series 262
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How you can help the development of a future forward strategy for pharmacy 260-261
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is about to embark on its Pharmacy 2020 project, which aims to identify the challenges and drivers that affect the profession's ability to fulfil its potential in health care provision, to identify good practice in pharmacy and to prepare a forward strategy to take pharmacy to the year 2020. On these two pages we look at how pharmacists can get involved in the project and influence the future
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Statutory Committee Reports
Reprimand for pharmacist who failed to act appropriately after errors 263
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Obituaries & tributes 264

Obituaries
-Hurst

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Society meetings 264
-British Pharmaceutical Conference (4-6 September)
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Resources 245
-Hepatitis C
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