The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 pp141-166 No 7464
11 August 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   142

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Tackling hospital infections 142
Health care-associated infections continue to pose a significant problem to acute trusts, as discussed in this week's News feature (p149). Clostridium difficile infected 55,634 patients aged over 65 years last year and almost 6,400 patients a year still contract meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections. It is distressing to health professions and the public that a patient can be admitted for a routine procedure and acquire a life-threatening infection
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News & Features   143-150

News summary  143-148
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Lead stories
-PPRS overhaul to focus on value to patients and NHS
-Contractors could miss out on benefits of EPS release 2 if online data are not up to date
-OFT sends out medicines distribution questionnaire
-DoH to help pharmacists pay Society retention fee
-OTC chlamydia treatment backed
-Pharmacists could have wider role in falls prevention
-UK study fails to show benefits of medication reviews
-Donepezil shown to help severe Alzheimer's patients

Can pharmacists help to cut infections? 149-150
Despite some progress in stemming the rise in health care-associated infections, further improvements will be needed if national targets are to be met next year. Tom Moberly examines the part pharmacists are playing in helping to control infections and looks at how this role might develop
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Products   151

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Products   151
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
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Announcements   151
-CD guidance
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Drug tariff updates   151
-England and Wales
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Medical device alert   151
-HemoCue Glucose meters
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Broad Spectrum   152

Why the new contractual framework is a requiem for independent pharmacy 152
By David Kent
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Letters   153-156

-Retention fees
-Dispensing
-Community pharmacy
-Miconazole
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Articles   157-158

A better acetylcysteine prescription 157-158
Uttamlal M. Chouhan, Elisabeth J. Dubourg and Linda Dodd discuss the complicated regimen of acetylcysteine administration in paracetamol overdose and how two prescribing aids can reduce the likelihood of both prescribing and administration errors
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Reviews   159

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Complementary medicine: a guide for pharmacists 159
by Denise Rankin-Box and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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Antimicrobial chemotherapy 159
by David Greenwood, Roger Finch, Peter Davey and Mark Wilcox
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Pharmaceutical care made easy 159
by John Sexton
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Onlooker   160

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Rosemary — a useful aromatic spice 160
Rosemary has come to be a familiar inhabitant of gardens. It has been cultivated for centuries in herb gardens, where it was grown mainly for its medicinal qualities as well as for its fragrance when strewn about the house and in clothes cupboards
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Vitamin A a major factor in infant nutrition 160
In the 23 June issue of The Lancet there is a discussion of the nutritional problem posed by deficiency of vitamin A, which threatens the survival and health of millions of children worldwide
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Another approach to cigarette addiction 160
In the July issue of Chemistry World some new light is thrown upon possible methods of conquering the tobacco habit. It is now 30 years since the first nicotine gum was developed in Sweden but still many smokers find themselves unable to abandon a habit that is calculated to kill half a billion people worldwide
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Talking about talking 160
Sex differences in conversational behaviour have for many years involved the interest of the public and scientists alike. Psychologists in several US universities have raised the topic in a brief report in the 6 July issue of Science
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Network News

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Branch funding for conference 2007 attendance insert
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Branches seek careers officers insert
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Put 2020 on your agendas insert
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Branch programmes, September to December 2007 insert
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Communicate, communicate, communicate insert
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Interview: Phillida Entwistle insert
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Quiz: Famous pharmacists insert
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Society seeks members' views in consultation on fees increase 161
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Society seeks to recover costs from premises fees 162
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New book on ethics and decision-making from the Pharmaceutical Press 162
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Open day for members and their families to be held at Lambeth on Sunday 23 September 162
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Society representatives at garden party 162
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New BPC initiatives allow more members to attend free 163
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BPC award winners announced 163
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Pharmaceutical Press book launched in Malta 163
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Pharmaceutical Press appoints consultant editor for the Americas 163
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Pharmacy 2020
What social capital is and why it is present in community pharmacy 164-165
In the second article in a series leading to a consultation among members about the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Pharmacy 2020 project, Stephen Fishwick, head of NHS service development at the National Pharmacy Association, takes a look at social capital
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Official notices 2001 to present

Erasure from the Register on the direction of the Statutory Committee 166
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Obituaries & tributes 166

Obituaries
-Dickinson
-Dilley
-Dumler
-Faro
-Foster
-Kasmaty
-Lewis
-Naylor
-Paterson
-Raynor
-Winston

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Society meetings 166
-International analytical validation and regulatory issues for the pharmaceutical industry (1-3 October)
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Future events 151
-Critical care (25 September)
-Cardiology (28 September)
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Awards 151
-UniChem awards
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Wants 151
-PCT pharmacists
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Corrections 151
-Premises fee
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