The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 pp233-266 No 7441
3 March 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   234

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What “royal college” means 234
As the Government forges ahead with its plans to establish a General Pharmaceutical Council and take regulation away from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society — a responsibility it was first given just over 70 years ago — what the outcome may be for the Society afterwards is beginning to be aired
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News & Features   235-242

News summary  235-240
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Lead stories
-Pharmacy bodies support creation of a royal college
-Pharmacists' Defence Association to form a trade union
-Productivity will become urgent priority as NHS funding slows
-Minister launches materials to assist public health
-Apnee Sehat project tackles health inequalities
-Shire launches non-calcium hyperphosphataemia treatment
-Salmeterol/fluticasone may not raise COPD survival

How a royal college model might work 241-242
The Government has announced that a General Pharmaceutical Council is to be established to regulate the profession and proposed a royal college model to provide clinical and professional leadership. Dawn Connelly collates opinions on how a “Royal College of Pharmacy” might work
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Products   243

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Products   243
-New medicines
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Supply issues
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Announcements   243
-Lilly orders
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Letters   244-249

-White Paper
-Community pharmacy
-NHS
-Medicines recycling
-Physician-assisted suicide
-The Council
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Agenda for 2007   250

Agenda for 2007
What are cardiac networks and why should pharmacists get involved? 250
Pharmacists Helen Williams and Sotiris Antoniou describe ways in which pharmacists in England can help to improve the coronary health of patients by getting involved with one of the 32 local cardiac networks that have been established in the past seven years
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Articles   251-252

Umda Dawa — a new approach to using medicines effectively in Bristol 251-252
Martin Howard, Joel Hirst and Alaster Rutherford describe a pilot pharmaceutical service aimed at Bristol's South Asian community
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Meetings   253

Reports index

Pharmacists' Defence Association
Pharmacy regulatory input to be limited 253
Pharmacist member of Parliament says that there is no evidence that lay majorities make for better regulation. Mike Thompson reports
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Onlooker   254

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Evolution in the balance 254
According to a report in the 12 January issue of Science, a curious situation has arisen in the US over the argument between creationists and evolutionists, which has provoked considerable antagonism
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Can early dietary choice influence future health? 254
According to an editorial in the 3 February issue of the BMJ, there is an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that health and survival have a link with intelligence
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How banknotes may be useful in assessing levels of cocaine use 254
A note in the 26 January issue of Science reveals a strange situation. It appears that Irish banknotes examined in Dublin recently using the technique of liquid chromatography combined with mass spectrometry (LC-MS) were shown to be contaminated with low levels of cocaine
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Disadvantage of vegetarianism 254
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   255-258

Recent articles

Ocular conditions
Ocular conditions from A to Z (ii)   255-258
This week’s CPD section continues the article published on 17 February (pp195–8), in which Marvyn Elton presents an A to Z guide to ocular conditions that pharmacists might encounter
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CPD diary
Community pharmacist: delivering new PCMS services  258
Fiona Morris is a pharmacy manager for Lloydspharmacy in Cumnock, Ayrshire
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Hospital Pharmacist (newsletter)   insert

Hospital Pharmacist Group

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Society starts consultation on self-selection of P medicines 259
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Society now has an ideal structure, says President 259
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English board spurns Council members for chairman 259
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Scottish board sees future as a “royal college” body 260
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Consultation on the self-selection of pharmacy medicines by the public 261-262
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Society consultation on professional standards for internet pharmacy services and advertising 263
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Bolton branch raises £2,000 for local hospice 264
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Schoolchildren encouraged to pursue pharmacy careers 264
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Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists
MEP page

March 2007 amendments 264
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Official notices 2001 to present

Statutory Committee decisions 265
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Hospital Pharmacists Group Committee election 2007 265
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 266
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Corrections 243
-Society's assets
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