The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp593-622 No 7427
18 November 2006

The Pharmaceutical Journal, 18 November 2006

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List of Contents

Leading article
News
News feature

COMMENT
Broad spectrum
Letters

Original papers

Articles

Meetings

Onlooker


Comunity Pharmacists Group
Newsletter

THE SOCIETY
News
-How the Society intends to secure sustainable outcome post Foster
-Candidates announced for the Society’s 2006 elections to the three national pharmacy boards

Official notices
Obituaries & tributes
Branch/Society meetings


JOURNAL NOTICE-BOARD   PDF (30K)
Products
Announcements
Drug recall (Tri-iodothyronine injection)
Wants
Corrections

Jobs and Classified advertising



Leading Article   594

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The elephant in the room 594
Now that the consultations on the reports into the regulation of medical and non-medical health care professionals have ended, the waiting begins. What will the Government decide next?
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News & Features   595-604

News summary, including R&D  595-600
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Lead stories
-Concern over revalidation ideas in regulation reports
-Community pharmacists could be in line for access to NHS mail
-LLoydspharmacy ordered to pay compensation after steroid error
-Contract test words altered
-Community matrons "will not reduce admissions"
-New analysis suggests all SSRIs pose risks to young
-Similar CV risk for etoricoxib and diclofenac shown
-Anticoagulant drug-antidote combination safe for human use

Separation of Society's professional and regulatory roles still to be resolved 601-602
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's response to the so-called Foster and Donaldson reports on the future regulation of the health professions was published earlier this week. Dawn Connelly looks at the Society's reaction to some of the reports' proposals
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Recognising Scottish community pharmacy's role in unscheduled care 603-604
Community pharmacists in Scotland are expanding their role in unscheduled care. Clare Bellingham reports
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Products   605

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Products   605
-New medicines
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
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Recalled products   605
-Tri-iodothyronine injection
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Announcements   605
-University of Bath
-Tuberculin PPD in BNF and BNFC
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Broad Spectrum   606

Trust me, I'm a pharmacist! 606
By Noel Baumber
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Letters   607-608

-PSNC conference
-NHS fraud
-The profession
-Pfizer products
-100-hour exemption
-Section 60 Order
-Registration
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Original papers   609-611

An investigation of nicotine replacement therapy provision by community pharmacists in Wandsworth Primary Care Trust, London 609-611
By Chijioke Agomo, Gill Rowlands, Mark Ashworth and Fiona Reid
Aim — To investigate current provision of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) by community pharmacists in Wandsworth Primary Care Trust
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Articles   612-615

UKCPA: a quarter century of focus 612-613
This year the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association celebrates its 25th anniversary. In this article, Christine Clark, a founder member of the association, reflects on its beginnings, achievements and future prospects
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Physician-assisted suicide
Pharmacy involvement where assisted suicide and euthanasia are permitted 614-615
In the first of two articles, Colin Meek investigates pharmacists' involvement in physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in countries where one or both of these interventions is legal, and the potential implications for pharmacy in Britain if assisted suicide were to be legalised
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Community Pharmacist (newsletter)   insert

Community Pharmacist Group

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Meetings   616-617

Reports index

Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group
“Go and be difficult,” pharmacists urged 616-617
Neonatal and paediatric pharmacists met recently to discuss pharmacy risk managment and safer medication practices. Matthew Wright reports
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Onlooker   618

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Walnut (Juglans regia)Growing food of the gods 618
There is reported to be a growing tendency among farmers and smallholders to cultivate the walnut tree for a number of uses
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How life emerged 618
Experts in France and Germany have suggested that earthly life probably originated in the depths of the ocean rather than on the surface of the land. A note on this supposition appears in the November issue of Chemistry World
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Taking a risk with unique museum specimens of early hominids 618
There is a comment in the 2 November issue of Nature that draws attention to one of the hazards involved in handling valuable and sometimes unique palaeoanthropological museum specimens
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Two different aspects of science in the Arabic world revealed 618
Between the eighth and 13th centuries AD the greatest advance in scientific knowledge stemmed from the Arab Muslim civilisation. The rest of the world, and western cultures in particular, learned much from the wisdom of the Arab countries
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The Society    619-622

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How the Society intends to secure sustainable outcome post Foster 619-620
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Candidates announced for the Society’s 2006 elections to the three national pharmacy boards 620
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Practice Committee issues new guidance on prescribing of modified release morphine 620
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Official notices 2001 to present

Statutory Committee inquiries 621
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Obituaries & tributes 621-622

Tributes
-Watson

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 622
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Wants 605
-Crisis Open Christmas
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Corrections 605
-Lung cancer CPD
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