The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp411-434 No 7421
7 October 2006

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Articles   412

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Your country needs YOU! 412
Lord Kitchener famously appeared in a First World War poster calling men to arms with the slogan “Your country needs you!”. This week the sentiment is echoed by the President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society who invites practising pharmacists in all sectors of the profession to consider putting their names forward for the elections to the new national pharmacy boards for England, Scotland and Wales
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A cat among the pigeons 412
So Pfizer has put a cat among the pigeons! Its claim that by granting exclusive distribution rights to UniChem it will be better able to ensure that counterfeit medicines do not enter the supply chain rings rather hollow. Rather, it seems more a way to maximise Pfizer profits and squeeze the margins for community pharmacies
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News & Features   413-418

News summary  413-417
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Lead stories
-Outrage over Pfizer's distribution announcement
-Supplementary prescribers need more support, survey finds
-Well educated women could be adding to antimicrobial resistance
-Government needs to ensure commissioning is fair
-Three-drug combination improves disease-free progression in metastatic HER2+ breast cancer
-PDA criticises Society's approach in draft fitness-to-practise rules

In the company of expert patients 418
The Government's vision for health continues to evolve — the Department of Health has announced that its Expert Patients Programme for people with long-term conditions will be transferred to a social enterprise company and Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Health, has sung the praises of social enterprise for the delivery of health care services in a recently published pamphlet. Matthew Wright investigates
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Products   419

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Products   419
-SPC changes
-Discontinued products
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Announcements   419
-Calfovit D3
-Permitabs
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Drug alert   417
-Neulasta SureClick Injection
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Broad Spectrum   420

Pharmacists are our own best PR 420
By Graham Phillips
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Letters   421-424

-The profession
-Messaging service
-Prescribing of statins
-NHS
-The Society
-Pfizer products
-Statutory Committee
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Meetings   425-427

Reports index

Numark
Independents discuss implications of Pfizer's alliance with UniChem 425
Pfizer’s plans to distribute its products solely though UniChem and pharmacy’s involvement in practice based commissioning were hot topics at the Numark conference weekend. Gemma Cleveland reports
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European Society of Cardiology
Developments in cardiology presented 426-427
New findings of importance for the treatment of heart disease were presented at an international conference recently. Mojgan Sani reports
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Hospital Pharmacist (newsletter)   insert

Hospital Pharmacist Group

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Onlooker   428

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Need for reliable information on CAM 428
In the 5 August issue of the BMJ, Edzard Ernst, director of complementary medicine at the Peninsula Medical School (of the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth), puts forward some helpful remarks on the need for better communication between patients and those treating them
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Shyness may be a more serious disability than we have thought 428
In the 7 September issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a New York psychiatrist offers useful information for people who are anxious and self-conscious in the presence of others. Social anxiety disorder can affect people at school, at work and in other social situations
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No agreement over the reduction of harm produced by tobacco 428
A comment in The Lancet for 9 September reports that a world conference on tobacco and health, held in Washington in July, failed to establish a consensus on some key policy issues regarding smoking
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Society starts search for members to serve on new national boards 429
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CPD conference identifies problems with online records 429
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Number of registered technicians reaches 4,000 430
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Sale of paracetamol 430
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Products containing citronella oil or eucalyptus oil 430
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Strychnine no longer approved for mole control 430
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Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists
MEP page

October 2006 amendments 430
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National boards: your country needs YOU! 431
The President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Hemant Patel, announces the launch of the first elections for the Society's national pharmacy boards for England, Scotland and Wales and calls for nominations for service as members of the new boards
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Official notices 2001 to present

Elections to the English Pharmacy Board of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 432
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Elections to the Scottish Pharmacy Board of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 432
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Elections to the Welsh Pharmacy Board of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 432-433
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Statutory Committee inquiries 433
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Obituaries & tributes 433

Obituaries
-Anderson
-Burns
-Shaw

Tributes
-Shaw

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 434
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Society meetings 433
-Symposium: Material functionality and fitness for purpose in solid dosage forms (December 7)
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Future events 419
-CLOT study day (October 13)
-PDIG symposium (November 2)
-Higher level tractice (November 15)
-Technician training (November 20)
-Commissioning training (January 2007)
-Numark conference (February 2007)
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Resources 419
-"Everyday Medicines" website
-Positive living DVD
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Wants 419
-Paediatric technicians
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