The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 pp267-294 No 7442
10 March 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   268

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We are where we are 268
We are where we are. This is a phrase much heard in Lambeth at the moment. For better (in many pharmacists’ minds) or worse (in others’), a General Pharmaceutical Council is to be established to register and regulate pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and premises
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Time to rethink that one, Brent! 268
Brent Teaching Primary Care Trust’s decision to stop paying for pharmacy-led stop-smoking support is madness
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News & Features   269-276

News summary  269-273
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Lead stories
-Staged increase of 2.5pc for NHS pharmacy staff
-Pharmacy smoking cessation services axed as part of Brent PCT cost-cutting exercise
-Prescription charge changes
-Pseudoephedrine products set to be reclassified POM
-Framework lays plans for flexible commissioning
-First independent prescriptions written in hospitals
-Exclude pharmacy from code on promoting services
-Hep B therapy generates resistance to HIV drugs

What might the planned GPC look like? 274
The Government has announced, among other suggestions, the end of elections for professional members of health regulatory councils and an expectation of greater regulatory consistency. Michael Thompson considers what this might mean for the planned General Pharmaceutical Council
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Preparing for no-smoking legislation 275-276
Smoking cessation services will be subject to increased demands in the run-up to smoking bans in England and Wales. Ahead of No Smoking Day on 14 March, Tom Moberly looks at ways pharmacists can help smokers stop completely
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Products   277

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Products   277
-New medicines
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
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Broad Spectrum   278

Development through partnership 278
By Bryan Mulley, Steve Hudson and Peter Taylor
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Letters   279-283

-White Paper
-Commissioning
-Statins
-NHS
-Community pharmacy
-Pharmacy education
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Agenda for 2007   284

Agenda articles
Can management training be used to advance pharmacy practice? 284
Most pharmacists in the community are now faced with increased pressures at work due to the burgeoning demand for new pharmacy services. Permanently employed community pharmacists and managers are struggling to cope, and the impact on locum pharmacists is intense
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Meetings   285-289

Reports index

Choosing health through pharmacy 285
Pharmacy must be a core component of health improvement strategies, says health minister. Dawn Connelly reports
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Herbal medicines
Future of UK herbal industry good as long as it adapts to new framework 286
The implications of changes to the British regulations for herbal medical products, following EU Directive 2004/24/EC, were discussed in London last month. Michael Heinrich reports
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Improving clinical effectiveness and reducing risk for medicines users 287-289
In the modern NHS key objectives for clinicians include the maximisation of clinical benefit and effectiveness. At the same time patient safety needs to be considered by addressing and implementing techniques to reduce risk. Steven Kayne reports from a symposium that discussed these topics
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Newsletters

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Onlooker   290

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Rethinking schizophrenia 290
At the end of the 19th century the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) took the then unitary concept of psychosis and divided it into two distinct forms, which he called manic-depressive psychosis and dementia praecox
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Breaking the tobacco habit is complicated 290
With the approach of No Smoking Day on 14 March, it is revealing to look back at an interesting aspect of cigarette addiction in a report from California published in the 26 January 2007 issue of Science
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More on the mystery of the Flores hobbit 290
The 2 February 2007 issue of Science calls attention once again to the mysterious hominid discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores
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Going over the top 290
I was amused to read in Chemistry World of a chemist who wonders if he has earned an entry in the record books for the largest batch of fireworks launched simultaneously
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Action needed now to meet future demand for pharmacists' services 291
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Regional conference provides CPD support for pharmacists 291
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Society prepares to pilot its system for reviewing CPD records 291
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Pharmacy boards
English board is keen to work closely with branches 292
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Society's museum launches new display for National Science Week 292
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Official notices 2001 to present

Industrial Pharmacists Group Committee election 2007 (amended notice) 293
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Obituaries & tributes 293

Obituaries
-Benbow
-Brown
-Whitworth

Tributes
-Samways
-Whitworth

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 294
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Society meetings 293
-The role of materials characterisation in pharmaceutical quality by design and manufacture (22 March)
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Future events 277
-Clinical pharmaceutics (15 March)
-Clinical trials (19 March)
-BPSA (31 March to 7 April)
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Corrections 277
-IPG Committee election
-McKesson Corporation
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