The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 pp595-632 No 7453
26 May 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   596

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Engage the silent majority 596
Lord Hunt, it seems, has achieved something that no one else has done in living memory: he has united the profession. Former presidents and secretaries of the Society, and various other members (as well as lay members of the Society's Council), are demanding that either the Government stops interfering in the Society's future or — if the future is integral to its policy — declare its hand
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News & Features   597-604

News summary  597-602
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Lead stories
-NICE offers advice for secondary prevention of MI
-Without regulation Society will be a new body
-Society retention fees to rise “substantially” next year
Society and NPA call on pharmacists to address problem of pseudoephedrine misuse
-GPs report a lack of PCT support for commissioning
-NICE guideline issued on treating fever in under-5s
-MI risk for rosiglitazone disputed
-Pharmacists need to improve their lobbying of MPs
-Treatment preferences shifted by patients' knowledge of drug name

2,500 post office closures announced — how will that affect pharmacy? 603
Last week the Government announced that almost one fifth of post offices are to close. This will impact on pharmacy services in an estimated 750 locations. Hannah Pike finds out why
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Is the Society Government's business? 604
Following the publication last week of the Carter report on professional regulation and leadership in pharmacy and Lord Hunt's view of the future options, Mike Thompson records the opinions of some members of the profession on the future of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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POEMs   600

POEMs series

Drotrecogin alfa ineffective in children with sepsis (RESOLVE) 600
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Products   605

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Products   605
-SPC changes
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Announcements   605
-Parlodel
-Visudyne
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Medical device alert   605
-Makromed urine test strips
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Drug tariff updates   605
-England and Wales
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Broad Spectrum   606

Monitored dosage systems are not the only solution for older people 606
By Lelly Oboh
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Letters   607-610

-White Paper
-Safety
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Agenda for 2007   611

Agenda articles
Why can’t we all just work together? 611
At a recent meeting on the future of general practice, Kate Billingham, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer at the Department of Health, sought to broaden the debate by proposing that the key to the future of the NHS was to focus on the thing that brings people together; namely providing patient care. This struck a chord with the audience
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Articles   612-614

Whatever the appeal of drug lunches, take STEPS to avoid indigestion! 612-614
In this article, Scott Pegler and colleagues from Morriston Hospital in Swansea describe how hospital pharmacists can set the agenda for lunchtime meetings with pharmaceutical industry representatives and quickly appraise the information provided
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Meetings   615-616, 621

Reports index

European Society of Clinical Pharmacy
Pharmacists will have to transform themselves into pharmacotherapists 615-616
This year's European Society of Clinical Pharmacy spring conference took place in Edinburgh. Tom Moberly reports
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Pharmacy Law and Ethics Association
No such thing as fair shares in the NHS 621
Alan Nathan reports on the ethical and legal issues surrounding the allocation of NHS resources
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   617-620

Recent articles

CPD: Diary
CPD: what pharmacists are doing   617-620
By now, pharmacists will be familiar with the Societys CPD recording format and, to date, over 20,000 members have made a record on www.uptodate.org.uk. The Journal asked seven of these pharmacists to give an example of the CPD they have recorded
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Onlooker   622

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Jeanne d'Arc and relics from a pharmacy attic 622
Jeanne D’Arc — or Joan of Arc — has her feast day on 30 May, the date on which she died in 1431. She was born in about the year 1412, from a peasant family of Domremy in France, and had a chequered career
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Is cruelty of use in the process of evolution? 622
Some comments in the 12 May issue of New Scientist make interesting reading. Social scientists have long explored the basis for much social behaviour such as altruism and jealousy as agents in the process of evolution, but little has been heard about gratuitous cruelty. Nevertheless, individuals and groups have shown almost unbelievable cruelty in dealing with one another over the centuries, and such behaviour must have at least some biological basis
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Health impact of the great US gun culture examined 622
An editorial in the 28 April issue of The Lancet goes into some of the aspects of violence in modern, and supposedly civilised, cultures in the light of the recent slaughter of 32 university students and teachers in Virginia
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
For accounts and annual review, see Society website
Journal AGM reports

Profession has to work together for the future, President tells AGM 623
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Change of emphasis in fitness-to-practise processes 623
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Substantial rise in retention fee may be inevitable 624-625
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Revised Code of Ethics and Standards is on target for 1 August start 625
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AGM rejects motion objecting to technician role in professional body 625
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Society urged to tell Government it should “butt out” 626
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Charter medals go to two clinical pharmacy innovators 627
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Synergy award presented to Sydney Holloway, historian of the Society 628
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Certificates presented to members designated as fellows in 2006 628
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SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING
Council meeting reports

Council rejects affiliation by non-pharmacist bodies 629
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NEWS

Formation of a new professional body for pharmacy should be led by the profession, not the Government, Society tells parliamentarians 630
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Three changes result from the Industrial Pharmacists Group's committee election 630
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Requirement to report matters related to conduct and fitness to practise to the Society 631
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Pharmacy information pointers Preparations
Compatibility and stability of ketamine and dexamethasone in continuous subcutaneous infusions 631
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Official notices 2001 to present
Industrial Pharmacists Group Committee 2007 election result 632
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Obituaries & tributes 632
Obituaries
-Templeton

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 632
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Society meetings 632
-Pharmacists as prescribers — the UK experience (11 June)
-Evening meeting: Best practice in the region (30 May)

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Future events 605
-Information technology (6 June)
-Medication safety (7 June)
-Urology study day (26 June)
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Wants 605
-Generics in Nicaragua
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