The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp533-560 No 7425
4 November 2006

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   534

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Patient safety to the fore, 534
Patient safety is flavour of the week: it runs through a number of stories we are covering. Arguably the simplest decision for pharmacists to make on the safety front is to undertake to talk to as many old people as they can next week about their medicines, in order to check that they understand why they are taking them and to sort out any problems they may be having
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News & Features   535-541

News summary  535-541
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Lead stories
-Greater interprofessional co-operation is needed
-Twice-daily deliveries at risk if others follow Pfizer arrangements
-Erewash self care project changes attitude more than behaviour
-Patient groups should disclose financial support
-Greater focus on needle exchange schemes needed
-Further evidence suggests neutral effect of statins on risk of cancer
-Ant-obesity drugs needed unless attitude changes

Older people to ask about medicines 542
The fourth Ask About Medicines Week runs in England from 6 to 10 November
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Products   543

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Products
-SPC changes
-Supply issues
-Products miscellany
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Announcements
-Cubicin, Tobi and Proleukin
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Drug tariff updates
-Category M
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Letters   544-5

-Supermarket pharmacy
-Pfizer products
-Professional image
-Paracetamol
-Varicella
-Psychotropic medicines
-Dispensing
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Agenda for 2006   546

Agenda articles
Raising fraud awareness on the NHS 546
In this article, Ahmer Kunwar describes how fraud is being tackled within the NHS and how NHS professionals can help
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Articles   547-552

The Foster review on regulation has revived a well rehearsed position 547-549
Whether the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's regulatory and professional roles should be separated was raised by Sir William Glyn-Jones as long ago as 1926. Historian S.W.F. Holloway looks at developments since then and says the Society must remain a professional organisation
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Challenges in tumour targeting 550-552
In this article, Max Summerhayes looks at why targeting tumours is difficult and considers whether targeting patients might be easier
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Meetings   553-555

Reports index

Pharmacy management
Practice-based commissioning: the jury is still out on many issues 553-554
The reorganisation of primary care trusts and the advent of practice-based commissioning was the background to discussions on the future of prescribing advice in the NHS at this one-day seminar
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Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
Don't be shrinking violets, Gidley urges 555
Individual pharmacists will have to promote themselves if they are to encroach on GPs' traditional territories
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Onlooker   556

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A global warming agent that has been overlooked 556
Whenever we talk of greenhouse gases and global warming we tend to think of carbon dioxide, which is generated on a vast scale by humans as they pursue their interests without regard to the repercussions they may have on the universe
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The fascinating case of the cunning cuscata 556
The dodder (Cuscuta spp) has long fascinated botanists
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A matter of definition: can greenhouse gases be called pollutants? 556
A Clean Air Act was adopted recently by the US and has resulted in a host of arguments and excuses
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Politics in practice 556
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Society seeks online pharmacies to take part in internet logo pilot 557
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Hall refurbishment completed 557
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Scottish executive holds final meeting before handing over to new board 557
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New guidelines for Council expenses claims 558
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New pharmacists urged to play an active part 558
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Privy Council approves fees 558
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Licence requirements for the prescribing of cocaine, diamorphine and dipipanone for addiction 558
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Official notices 2001 to present

Statutory Committee decisions 559
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Obituaries & tributes 559-560

Obituaries
-Downes
-Munday
-Rowe
-Rushworth
-Shepherd
-Turvey
-Whittaker

Tribute
Whittaker

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 560
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Society meetings 559
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Resources 542
-Online education
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