The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 pp1-34 No 7433
6 January 2007

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Leading Article   2

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Dispensing public health 2
In some areas, public health in Britain is taken for granted. An example of this is the provision of clean drinking water. But it was not always so
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News & Features   3-8

News summary  3-6
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Lead stories
-Pharmacists and GPs must co-operate, says Society
-Pharmacists under investigation for stop-smoking fraud allegations
-Further CD changes come into effect in Wales
-Soraya Dhillon MBE in New Year's honours
-Concerns continue over distribution arrangements
-Home oxygen service cost soars, claims Pulse
-Covert medication guidance issued

Eastern European pharmacists in the UK 7-8
As the EU expands, communities and working environments are changing. Lin-Nam Wang reports on how migrants from Eastern Europe affect pharmacy
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Products   9

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Products   9
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
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Drug tariff updates   9
-England and Wales (December 2006)
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Broad Spectrum   10

Self-care: whose health is it anyway? 10
By Terry Maguire
It has taken 50 years but the truth is finally out: the NHS can be bad for your health. You do not agree? Why, then, in the league of big killers, does iatrogenic disease come an impressive fourth? Some achievement for a service whose mission is to save lives. And then there are health inequalities — the difference in the health of the best off in our society compared with the worse off is nothing short of a national scandal
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Letters   11-12

-Patient safety
-Medicines use reviews (MURs)
-Section 60 Order
-The Society
-Wholesaling
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Special feature: Public health   13-20, 25

Public health: why pharmacy counts 13-14
Miriam Armstrong, chief executive of PharmacyHealthLink, explains what public health means and how pharmacists can contribute to it
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Prescription-linked public health 15-16
Community pharmacists in England and Wales must promote healthy lifestyles to certain target groups, with the aim of increasing the patients' understanding of the health issues relevant to their circumstances. Tom Moberly looks at the requirements of the contract and at how some pharmacists are initiating discussions and giving advice
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Successful public health campaigns 17
As part of the essential service designated “promotion of healthy lifestyles” in the community pharmacy contract in England and Wales, pharmacists must take part in at least six public health campaigns per year. Dawn Connelly finds out what is involved in running a successful campaign
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How to sell health and well-being 18
Are pharmacists being asked to do the impossible? Lin-Nam Wang investigates
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EHC: enhancing the nation's well-being 19
Matthew Wright looks at which enhanced pharmacy services might fulfil a public health function and speaks to a pharmacist who provides an emergency hormonal contraception service in a community pharmacy
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Signposting: is the information available? 20
Ros Band, a health development manager at Health First, looks at what is available to help pharmacists with the essential service of signposting
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Public health: a big issue in Scotland 25
Reducing cardiovascular disease and teenage pregnancy rates are two key public health targets in Scotland. Clare Bellingham reports on pharmacy initiatives tackling them
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   21-24

Recent articles

Clinical developments in 2006  21-24
More than 20 new medicines were launched in the UK in 2006. In our first CPD article of the year, Harriet Adcock, news editor of The Pharmaceutical Journal, looks back at them and considers some of the more significant clinical developments of the past year
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Meetings   26-27

Reports index

Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Great Britain
Cancer medicines: preclinical models and the challenges for therapeutics 26-27
One of the key challenges in the development of novel therapies lies at the interface of preclinical and clinical development, participants at the inaugural meeting of the “Development of cancer medicines” series heard. Joseph Chamberlain reports
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Onlooker   28

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How eating dirt may be good medicine 28
Geophagia, or the eating of dirt, is an ancient habit, dating back to 1800BC or further. According to an account in the 30 November issue of Nature, there are records of it from Sumeria, Egypt and China, but it has received little attention from the anthropology researchers
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Bats may follow an internal magnetic compass in their wanderings 28
Bats have long had a reputation for their marvellous sense of location. They have also been reputed for their blindness
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Neanderthalers in desperate fight for survival 28
New discoveries by a team from the National Museum for Natural Sciences, in Madrid, have suggested that the prevalent view of Homo neanderthalis as clumsy, stupid and lacking in culture may be doing this early species of mankind an injustice. Evidence shows that they were desperate to survive in the face of severe obstacles
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Seeing nature / Nature's inventions 28
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New guidance on safe practice in the disposal of Controlled Drugs 29
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New book focuses on asthma 29
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10 pharmacists designated as fellows of the Society 30
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British Pharmaceutical Conference practice research medallist sought for 2007 32
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New textbook on clinical pharmacology 32
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Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists
MEP page

January 2007 amendments 30
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Statutory Committee Reports
False claims and declarations lead to striking-off order 31-32
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Official notices 2001 to present

New fellows 33
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Obituaries & tributes 33-34

Obituaries
-Benoliel
-Price

Tributes
-Agnew
-Davies
-Iles
-Powell
-Price
-Wright

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 34
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Society meetings 33-34
-Stability testing of pharmaceuticals (19-21 February)
-Pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic data analysis (20-24 May)
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Future events 9
-ECA conferences (30 January - 2 February)
-Prescribing (26 January)
-Pharmacy trade (4-7 March)
-UKPHA (28-29 March)
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Awards 9
-Humanitarian work
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Resources 9
-Asthma MURs
-Pharmacopoeia
-Pharmacy practice
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