The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 pp1-30 No 7459
7 July 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Articles   2

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Importance of innovation 2
Mid-summer for The Journal is marked by the Pharmaceutical Care Awards, and the finalists for 2006 were recognised at a conference and dinner at the end of last week. This year, we departed from the norm and did not select winners and runners-up. Instead we decided that all seven finalists justified receiving the same prize and the right to call themselves a winner of a Pharmaceutical Care Award
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New crew at the Department of Health 2
Harold Wilson said a week is a long time in politics — something that Lord Hunt must be pondering now that he is no longer the Government minister with responsibility for pharmacy. Alan Johnson, the new Secretary of State for Health, and his crew are now at the helm of the good ship Department of Health and it will be interesting to see who is given responsibility for pharmacy and in which direction the profession will be steered
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News & Features   3-7

News summary  3-7
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Lead stories
-Call to improve monitoring of CD requisition forms
-Nearly all change at the Health Department
-AstraZeneca delays direct-to-pharmacy distribution
-Dissatisfaction with Pfizer
-Winners of Ask About Medicines Awards announced
-Paliperidone added to antipsychotic drugs arsenal
-Payment by results could hamper best practice
-A third of patient safety incidents reported within primary care take place in community pharmacies

Products   8-9

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Products   8-9
-New medicines
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Counter products
-Discontinued products
-Supply issues
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Announcements   9
-PSNC information team
-Know Your Numbers
-Graduate questionnaire
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Pharmaceutical Care Awards   10-14

Pharmaceutical Care Awards

The Pharmaceutical Care Awards 2006 were presented at a celebratory dinner on 29 June at Apothecaries’ Hall, London. The dinner followed a conference at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s headquarters, where the finalists presented their projects to an audience of invited guests. The awards, organised by The Pharmaceutical Journal, are sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline and the Company Chemists’ Association

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Working together to achieve one aim 10
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Improving the care of anorexia-cachexia patients 10
Improving the experience of the anorexia-cachexia syndrome for patients with cancer
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Pharmacist prescribing improves the care of hypertensive patients 11
Pharmacist supplementary prescribing hypertension clinic
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Pharmacist prescribing reduces benzodiazepine consumption 11
Pharmacist supplementary prescribing benzodiazepine reduction clinic
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More medicines support for mental health patients in the community 12
A medicines clinic as part of a community mental health service
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Expanding treatment choice for drug misusers 12
Shared care of drug misusers
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Conference on camera 13
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Improving the effective application of emollients in children with eczema 14
Pharmacist intervention to promote adherence to effective use of emollients in childhood eczema
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Reducing errors on transfer between care settings 14
Medication error reduction and improvement in therapeutics
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Broad Spectrum   15

Can the Society convince members to join the new royal college-type body? 15
By Chijioke Agomo
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Letters   16-20

-Supervision
-Community pharmacy
-Medication errors
-Agenda for change
-White Paper
-Counterfeit medicines
-Recalls
-Pfizer
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   23-26

Recent articles

How to deal with constipation   23-26
Susan Allen outlines the causes of and treatments for constipation and discusses special groups pharmacists should consider
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Reviews   21-22, 27

EXHIBITIONS
A Wellcome place to visit in London21-22
With a list of treasures that any freak show promoter would give his right arm for, the Wellcome Collection opened last month. Lin-Nam Wang reports
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BOOKS
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Clinical pharmacy 27
edited by Nick Barber and Alan Willson
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Stockley's drug interactions 2007 pocket companion 27
edited by Karen Baxter
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Handbook of drug administration via enteral feeding tubes 27
by Rebecca White and Vicky Bradnam
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Advanced technologies in biopharmaceutical processing 27
edited by Roshni Dutton and Jeno Scharer
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Onlooker   28

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Fragrant bog plant with many folk uses 28
I recently came across an attractive plant flourishing in a boggy patch of heathland almost on my doorstep. It was the bog myrtle or sweet gale (Myrica gale), a wetland shrub that bears orange-brown catkins in spring and early summer. It has a delicious fragrance, especially when in flower. Indeed the entire plant is odorous
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Englishness, nationalism and the looting of artefacts from ancient sites 28
In the current issue of Current Archaeology there is a discussion by Miles Russell, of Bournemouth University, concerning the real definition of the English. The recent proliferation and celebration of England's national flag has been promoted by a rising interest in international sports and in particular by last year's football World Cup, which saw a burst of car flag mania and the display of the cross of St George outside shops, houses and schools
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Physician helped artist to fame 28
One of our celebratory events in 2007 is the bicentenary of the death of the portrait painter John Opie, who came to fame through the sponsorship of a local physician
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Could you contribute to the Onlooker page? 28
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British Pharmaceutical Conference
Programme and booking form for 2007 British Pharmaceutical Conference are available now 29
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Royal Pharmaceutical Society guidance

Titles for those progressing towards registration as pharmacists or pharmacy technicians 29
It is essential that the public and other health and social care professionals understand the status of anyone progressing towards qualification as either a pharmacist or pharmacy technician from the professional title they use
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Official notices 2001 to present

Council by-election in Wales 30
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Disciplinary Committee 30
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 30
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Future events 8-9
-Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association conference (1-5 August)
-Industrial pharmacists (August/September)
-PCCPN (7-9 October)
-Parkinson's disease (13 September)
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Awards 9
-AvMA awards
-Information technology
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