The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 pp511-538 No 7450
5 May 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   512

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Let the Society be preserved 512
As the future for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society unfolds, and the implications of establishing a General Pharmaceutical Council and “a body akin to a royal college” for pharmacy sink in, The Journal wonders whether the Government understands what it is doing and realises that, rather than giving the profession a wonderful present, it has handed pharmacy a Pandora's box
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News & Features   513-518

News summary  513-518
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Lead stories
-Royal college should be new entity, says Lord Hunt
-Pharmacy bodies put forward options for establishing royal college
-Positive results for asthma MURs
-Rigorous accreditation process for PhwSIs revealed
-Alliance Boots calls for access to electronic records
-Decongestant switch is disproportionate to the risk
-Clostridium difficile cases rise in 2006, HPA reveals

Products   519

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Products   519
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Products miscellany
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Announcements   519
-NHS BSA
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Broad Spectrum   520-521

New contract runs risk of distracting pharmacists from helping the over 60s 520
By Miranda Leontowitsch, Paul Higgs, Fiona Stevenson and Ian Rees Jones
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A nation of box tickers and informants — does that sound like a police state? 521
By Joy Wingfield
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Letters   522-526

-White Paper
-MURs
-Dispensing errors
-Chemotherapy
-Medication review
-Pfizer
-Locum pharmacy
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Agenda for 2007   527

Agenda articles

Moving pharmaceutical care closer to home in England — a role for PhwSIs 527
What does “care closer to home” really mean for pharmacists? The 2006 White Paper “Our health, our care, our say” maps what care closer to home looks like
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Articles   528-531

Development of a leadership course tailored for pharmacists in Scotland 528-531
Fiona McMillan and colleagues provide an update on the development of the NHS Education for Scotland pharmacy leadership course
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Industrial Pharmacist (newsletter)   insert

Industrial Pharmacist Group

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Onlooker   532

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Is copper the cure for cross-infection? 532
A curious comment in the April issue of Chemistry World discusses the possibility of using copper in helping to overcome the serious and recurrent question of controlling cross-infection in our hospitals and nursing homes. The old saying that “where there’s muck there’s brass” has been inverted to argue that where there’s brass, muck cannot flourish
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Egyptian mystery pots held scented ointment, not embalmed organs 532
An interesting excursion into the habits of the old rulers of Egypt and an investigation into their raw materials appears in New Scientist for 17 March
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Presidential election highlights future of scientific research in France 532
Much discussion has been reported in the 19 April issue of Nature on the serious issue of the future of scientific research in France
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Society appoints KCL professor as its new chief scientific adviser 533
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AGM to debate involvement of pharmacy technicians in the Society 533
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Death of Statutory Committee member Bob Wood 533
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Welsh Pharmacy Board continues discussion on communications 534
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Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists
MEP page

May 2007 amendments 534
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Official notices 2001 to present

Annual general meeting: revised notice 535
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Statutory Committee decisions 535-536
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Hospital Pharmacists Group election 2007 536
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Industrial Pharmacists Group election 2007 536
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Obituaries & tributes 536-537

Obituaries
-Gisborne
-Wood
-Wycherley

Tributes
-Clapinski
-Gisborne

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 538
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Society meetings 538
-Lecture: “Electricity and the enlightenment” (9 May)
-Veterinary Pharmacists Group conference (7 June)
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Resources 519
-Repeat dispensing
-CPD guide
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Corrections 519
-NPA board members
-CPD (Potassium article)
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