The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp677-720 No 7430
9 December 2006

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Leading Article   678

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How to be heard 678
About now, voting forms and booklets outlining the candidates' credentials for the Society's three national pharmacy board elections will drop through eligible pharmacists' and pharmacy technicians' letterboxes. Members of these boards will have a real opportunity to focus on professional matters and to lead and guide members in that arena
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News & Features   679-683

News summary  679-683
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Lead stories
-Pfizer discounts acceptable to England and Wales
-UKsmoking ban from 1 July 2007
-New arrangements for CD inspections to start next year (2007)
-Increased attention given to pharmacy at Scottish party political conferences
-Pandemic flu an ethical dilemma
-Kidney disease prescribing information "too vague"
-Postgraduate training differences need to be resolved
-Rosiglitazone monotherapy has lower failure rate in type 2 diabetes than metformin and glibenclamide

Products   684-685

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Products   684-685
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Products miscellany
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Announcements   685
-BNF Ivax e-mail address
-Triiodothyronine injection
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Recalled products   684
-Rabipur
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Broad Spectrum   686

Expensive drugs are cheap; it is the cheap drugs that are expensive 686
By John Wilson
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Letters   687-690

-TDM
-Work breaks
-Pfizer products
-Enhanced services
-Concordance
-Small pharmacies
-Huntington's disease
-Section 60 Order
-The Society
-Technicians
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Agenda for 2006   691-693

Agenda articles

What is needed to take pharmacist prescribing into the mainstream 691-692
It is more than two years since the first pharmacist started prescribing, in March 2004. Clare Bellingham reports on progress in Scotland
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People who make the rules should engage with those who teach them 693
November saw closure of yet another Royal Pharmaceutical Society consultation, this time on principles that should underpin pharmacy education and training. Within the consultation document were a series of desirable objectives but no detail as to how these were to be achieved. Individual pharmacists have already recognised that the changing health care environment and new responsibilities call for constructive action from the Society
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Vision for pharmacy   694

Vision articles

Using non-clinical staff to improve medicines management services 694
A scheme in Cumbria uses non-clinical “practice medicines managers” to improve medicines management services. Dawn Connelly reports
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Original papers   695-697

Are there quantitative differences in the prescribing costs of dispensing and non-dispensing doctors? 695-697
By Michael Wilcock, Jo Erwin and Jan Wankowski
Aim — To compare prescribing costs of non-dispensing and dispensing doctors, to ascertain significant differences in the use of specific categories of drugs and to identify other factors contributing to differences in overall prescribing costs
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Articles   698

Can type 1 diabetes be prevented? 698
In this article, Olwen Glynn Owen reports on two clinical strategies that have the potential to make type 1 diabetes a disease of the past
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Meetings   699

Reports index

Association of Teaching Hospital Pharmacists
Pharmacy family must confront reforms 699
Alison Ewing reports on presentations given by the chief pharmacist for England and the chief executive of the National Pharmacy Association
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Onlooker   700

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Virus over the horizon 700
The strain of influenza virus known as H5N1 is giving rise to great anxiety as it makes its appearance in different places
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Getting treasure seekers to act responsibly 700
I can remember when I was a schoolboy and spending holidays by the sea — only a mile or two away from home — the excitement at finding, during a lunch among the sand dunes, a valuable-looking ring in the middle of a dune. Such an event is rare indeed, although the discovery of metal seals and rugged hunks of shrapnel left by wartime activities have not been uncommon in my experience
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Charms to sooth a troubled breast 700
Music and medicine seem to have some characteristics in common
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Loathsome custom 700
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   703-706

Recent articles

Management of myasthenia gravis   703-706
In this article, Susan Allen describes the symptoms of myasthenia gravis and what support pharmacists can give
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National board elections under way 701
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Pharmaceutical Press to publish new “Orange guide” 701
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Society guidance on inspectors' new CD role 701
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Monitoring and inspection of Controlled Drugs: role of the Society's inspectors 702, 707
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's chief inspector, Jackie Giltrow, explains the new role of the Society's inspectorate in the monitoring and inspection of Controlled Drugs in community pharmacies in England from January 2007 and in Scotland from March 2007, with observations on the situation in Wales
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National board candidates' “Who’s who” 708-717
The first elections to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's national pharmacy boards for England, Scotland and Wales are now getting under way
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Members elected unopposed to the English Pharmacy Board 717
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Statutory Committee Reports
Aggressive pharmacist is ordered to be struck off 718-719
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Reprimand after dispensing error highlights poor record-keeping 719
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Official notices 2001 to present

Statutory Committee meeting 720
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 720
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Future events 685
-Health partnerships (6-7 February 2007)
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Awards 685
-Ask About Medicines
-Pharmacy writing awards
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Resources 685
-Cancer patient information pathways
-Depression
-Epilepsy
-Ethnicity and health
-GMP/GCP interface
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Wants 685
-Young health researcher award sponsors
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Reunions 685
-Brighton 1997
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Christmas closures 685
-Solvay Healthcare
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Corrections 685
-David Shenton's letter
-Champix
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