The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp379-410 No 7420
30 September 2006

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Articles   380

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Safe in whose hands? 380
Last weekend it was widely reported that Gordon Brown was considering establishing an independent board to run the NHS — if he ever becomes Prime Minister. Mr Brown has a track record in advocating such an arrangement
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News & Features   381-388

News summary  381-386
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Lead stories
-Patients must be comfortable sharing health data
-Pharmacists should help identify patients at risk from influenza
-Pharmacist shortlisted for researcher of the year award
-Proposal put forward for naloxone to be available over the counter
-Pharmacy consortium loses to builder's pharmacy
-Reviews can reduce falls in elderly
-Variations in use of NICE-approved drugs reducing
-Divided loyalties could affect how NHS staff deal with pandemic flu

Will volunteers still want to take part in research after the TGN1412 trial? 387-388
Six months ago, the severe reactions suffered by six young men at Northwick Park Hospital made clinical trials headline news. Tom Moberly looks at the impact of that study on the future of clinical trials and the recruitment of healthy volunteers to take part in them
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Products   389

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Products   389
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Products miscellany
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Announcements   389
-Zeneus Pharma
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Drug tariff updates   389
-NCSO
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Broad Spectrum   390

People need friends of all political colours — so where was pharmacy? 390
By Sandra Gidley
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Letters   391-393

-Medical regulation
-PSNC
-Drug interactions
-Nutraceuticals
-Community pharmacy
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Original papers   394-398

Inter- and intra-professional perspectives on non-medical prescribing in an NHS trust 394-398
By Paul Buckley, Janet Grime and Alison Blenkinsopp
Aim — To investigate the factors that will enable or inhibit the implementation of non-medical prescribing
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   399-402

Recent articles

Influenza: treatment and prevention   399-402
In preparation for the influenza season, Yvonne Perrie outlines what pharmacists should know about flu and the advice they can give
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Articles   403-404

How the reclassification of kidney disease impacts on dosing adjustments 403-404
In this article, Andrea Devaney, Caroline Ashley and Charlie Tomson highlight potential problems introduced by the changes to how renal impairment is classified and explain why extra care is needed when working with the new terms
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Reviews   405

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Anti-epileptic drug interactions: a clinical guide 405
by Phillip Patsalos
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Bad medicine: doctors doing harm since Hippocrates 405
by David Wootton
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Minor illness or major disease? The clinical pharmacist in the community 405
by Clive Edwards and Paul Stillman
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Onlooker   406

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Adolescence and antisocial behaviour 406
A psychiatrist writing in the BMJ of 2 September has pointed out that good parenting offers protection against psychosocial problems arising during adolescence
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Insect migration: a poorly understood but important phenomenon 406
Little is known about the reasons that drive insects to migrate over vast stretches of the world or about the practical purposes that this habit serves in the biological world. In the 11 August issue of Science, three biologists discuss the implications of such behaviour
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Some observations on violent feelings as a motive force in society 406
In his book on ‘Modern painters’ (1856), the artist and social critic John Ruskin commented: “All violent feelings produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things”. Today, 150 years later, his observation regrettably remains relevant
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Survey finds pharmacy ownership the top ambition for students 407
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Law and Ethics Bulletins to be added to Society website 407
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Library reduces cost of photocopying service 408
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Collection of 2007 pharmacy technician fees begins 408
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Death of honorary member Nippe Strandqvist 408
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Notification of errors 408
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Official notices 2001 to present

Scottish registration ceremony 409
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Obituaries & tributes 409

Obituaries
-Coker
-Dowie

Tributes
-Ogden

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 410
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Society meetings 410
-Symposium — Principles of pharmacy education (November 6)
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Future events 389
-Infection management (October 20)
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Awards 389
-British Heart Foundation
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