The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp467-500 No 7423
21 October 2006

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Articles   468

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A new public health measure 468
New drugs and treatments that may have a significant impact on the health of the population are always to be welcomed — even more so if the intervention is for preventive purposes
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… and a new public protection measure 468
Car and household insurance policies are not valid until the premium is paid and forms are completed giving an accurate claims history
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News & Features   469-478

News summary, including R&D  469-476
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Lead stories
-PSNI remains to be convinced about GB merger
-"Promoting profession" likely to be removed from Osteopaths Act
-First cervical cancer vaccine launched in UK by Sanofi Pasteur MSD
-Coles resigns as BAPW chairman; Brownlee elected
-Pharmacy represented in pilot site for DoH project
-New examination for registration in New Zealand
-Cochrane review questions value of pioglitazone
-Data support scaling cetuximab dose to provoke rash
-Ranibizumab studies reveal drug's efficacy in AMD
-Antidiabetic may lower side effects of other agents

How Pfizer's plans could be disruptive 477-478
Pfizer's recent decision to take its business away from wholesalers and carry out trade on its own terms has met an unenthusiastic response. Solidarity on the issue, it seems, mainly exists between UniChem — the manufacturer's appointed distributor — and Pfizer itself. Matthew Wright investigates
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Products   479

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Products   479
-New medicines
-SPC changes
-Discontinued products
-Counter products
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Letters   480-484

-Pfizer products
-Prescribing
-Sugar-free medicines
-Drug misuse
-Pharmacy in Spain
-Pharmacy ownership
-The Society
-Superdrug
-Hiccups

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Articles   485-489

Electronic prescribing — experience in the UK and system design issues 485-489
In this article, Stephen Goundrey-Smith provides pharmacists with an overview of published experience of electronic prescribing in the UK and discusses the effect of system design on, and issues associated with, the perceived benefits of EP
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Industrial Pharmacist (newsletter)   insert

Industrial Pharmacist Group

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Onlooker   490

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Can a shortage of sleep make you put on weight? 490
In these days the health professions take a persistent interest in the growing problem of obesity that lies at the root of many chronic illnesses
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Motivation: the gentle art of boosting an ego 490
There are two main ways of boosting an individual's ego (that is, his sense of self-importance in this world)
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Recreational drug abuse extends its limits 490
In the 30 September issue of New Scientist there is a rather worrying article regarding the proliferation of “recreational drugs” that are perfectly legal to deal in but which nevertheless pose a looming problem when it comes to their control
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Actions and attitudes: the sense of responsibility is paramount 490
Our notion of responsibility centres on our understanding of people's purposes
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October Council meeting
Council meeting reports

October Council meeting: attendance and guests 491
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Striking off planned for not making a fitness-to-practise declaration 491
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Society to research IT needs in community pharmacy 491
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Council to maintain a watching brief on Pfizer's distribution deal 492
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Work of Practice Committee to be devolved to national boards 492
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Revised role description for the Treasurer agreed by the Council 492
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Council gazettes first batch of Regulations that will succeed Byelaws 493
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Revised Council election Regulations go to Privy Council for approval 493
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Society's research strategy to focus on leadership and development 493
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Council agrees the way forward in response to its consultation on proposed Rules relating to fitness to practise and registration 494
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Society to establish a support staff advisory group to assist Council 494
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Revised work experience requirement for registration as a pharmacy technician 495
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New season of inspectors' informal half-day presentations for preregistration trainees 495
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Poisons past and present on display in Society's library 495
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The national pharmacy boards: how you can help them influence the future 496-497
Pharmacists with experience of the health care political scene in England, Scotland and Wales discuss some of the issues that the members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's new national pharmacy boards will confront
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Corrections to the “Retail sale of pharmacy medicines” and “Labelling of medicinal products' sections of MEP 497
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Amendment to the Law and Ethics Bulletin on The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2006 497
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Official notices 2001 to present

Regulations to supersede Sections VIII, X, XI, XIII, XVIII, XXV and XXVI of the Byelaws 498
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English Pharmacy Board elections 498
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Scottish Pharmacy Board elections 498
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Welsh Pharmacy Board elections 498-499
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Statutory Committee inquiries 499
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Erasure from the Register on the direction of the Statutory Committee 499
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Obituaries & tributes 499-500

Obituaries
-Davie
-Hindle
-Hoyle
-Peters
-Walker

Tribute
-Hindle

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 500
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Resources 479
-Ask About Medicines
-Pharmacy business
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