The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp355-378 No 7419
23 September 2006

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Articles   356

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Training in the spotlight 356
Aspects of undergraduate pharmacy education and preregistration training are due for a realignment. The findings of research carried out by academics at Aston University and published as an Original paper this week could serve as a starting point
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No room at the top 356
Lists of the best, richest, favourite etc are designed to be controversial and will always exclude somebody's top choice. This week the Health Service Journal publishes its list of the 50 people with most influence on the NHS
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News & Features   357-362

News summary  357-361
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Lead stories
-Contract funding up to £1.911 billion
-Profession risks isolation from NHS if views on electronic records are not heard, says CCA
-New PSNC chairman sought
-CCA criticises vocabulary used in new FTP rules
-Preregistration training provision in Scotland revised
-Promising data for glitazone in diabetes prevention
-Diclofenac may share CV risks of COX-2 inhibitors

Has deregulation already gone too far? 362
The Department of Health's consultation on the new control-of-entry regulations in England, which came into force in April 2005, closed last week. Tom Moberly looks at respondents' views of the changes' impact
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Products   363

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Products   363
-New medicines
-SPC changes
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Drug tariff updates   363
-Category M
-NCSO
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Broad Spectrum   364

One solution to the Foster conundrum 364
By Chijioke Agomo
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Letters   365-366

-NHS
-Paracetamol
-BPC
-Homoeopathy
-The Society
-Retention fee
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Agenda for 2006   367-368

Agenda articles

If it ain't broke, don't fix it! The Society gears up to respond to Foster review 367-368
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has started to prepare its response to the Foster review on the regulation of non-medical health care professions. Here, Olivia Timbs provides a flavour of the informal discussions of the Council and senior members of the Society's staff
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Original papers   369-372

Mapping teaching, learning and assessment in the MPharm in UK schools of pharmacy 369-372
By Keith Wilson, Chris Langley, Jill Jesson and Katie Hatfield
Aim — To undertake a national study of teaching, learning and assessment in UK schools of pharmacy
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Reviews   373

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Natural products: a case-based approach for health care professionals 373
by Karen Shapiro
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A historical guide to delftware and Victorian ointment pots — 1730-1950 373
by R. J. Houghton and M. R. Priestley
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Medical law and research 373
by Stephen I. Ankier
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Onlooker   374

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Problems in US primary care medicine 374
A contribution to the 31 August issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, from Thomas Bodenheimer of the University of California, raises the problem of the survival of primary care medicine in the US in the face of changing patient expectations. The article follows a recent warning from the American College of Physicians that “primary care, the backbone of the nation’s health care system, is at grave risk of collapse”
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Finding a remedy for the knotty problem of an invasive alien giant 374
I was intrigued recently by a report in my local newspaper regarding a vexatious problem on my doorstep in respect of an imported invasive garden weed
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The higher up the mountain the more difficult becomes survival 374
According to Andrew Sutherland of Oxford, writing in the BMJ of 26 August, it used to be thought physiologically impossible to climb Mount Everest with or without supplementary oxygen. It was not until 1953 that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay showed that with oxygen the summit could be achieved, and in 1978 Reinhold Messner and Peter Habelar managed it without oxygen
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Veterinary Pharmacist (newsletter)   insert

Veterinary Pharmacist Group

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September Council meeting
Council meeting reports

September Council meeting: attendance and guests 375
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Council rejects PC advisers' further advice on national pharmacy boards 375
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Council to discuss S60 Order 375
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Appointments to English national board will not precede board elections 376
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Members' views sought on Society's future 376
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Technical errors on Schedule 2 and 3 Controlled Drug prescriptions 377
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Official notices 2001 to present

Statutory Committee Inquiries 377
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Obituaries & tributes 378

Obituaries
-Graham
-Minns
-Thomas
-Wherry
-Williams

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 378
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Future events 363
-Clinical trial practice (29 September)
-Hope Winch Society (14 October)
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Corrections 363
-Alan Nathan
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