The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 pp195-218 No 7466
25 August 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Articles   196

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A new breed of pharmacy 196
How do pharmacists break into pharmacy ownership? The traditional route of buying an independent pharmacy from someone on the point of retirement has become increasingly difficult. Prices are so high that only the multiples are prepared, or can afford, to buy them. So, as a result, some enterprising pharmacists have decided to go down the 100-hour route
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Beware of illegal websites selling medicines 196
World-wide there are thousands of websites selling medicines. Most surprisingly, according to a report from the US, nearly 20 per cent of them are hosted from the UK. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is set to introduce a system where bona fide virtual pharmacies must display a logo to reassure the public that they are registered by the Society and subject to the same level of inspection that physical premises are
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News & Features   197-202

News summary  197-200
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Lead stories
-One in five online pharmacies operates from the UK
-CD destruction rules change
-Pharmacy vacancies fall
-Scotland funds error studies
-Restricted approval of rituximab and adalimumab
-EU prescriptions could in future be valid in the UK
-Pharmacists must learn to assess mental health needs of old people

Experiences of 100-hour pharmacies 201
The control-of-entry exemption for pharmacies opening for 100 hours a week has been cited as a threat to service provision and a boost for patient access. Ahead of this autumn's White Paper on pharmaceutical services, Tom Moberly looks at the concerns raised and experiences from 100-hour pharmacies
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Focusing on lifestyles to reduce obesity 202
An obesity-management service run by pharmacists in Coventry has been under way for over six months. Matthew Wright looks at the progress so far
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Products   203

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Products   203
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Supply issues
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Announcements   203
-Archimedes Pharma
-Neupro
-Liverpool John Moores
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Recalls   203
-Flucloxacillin capsules 500mg
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Broad Spectrum   204

How regulation, retention fees and the EU may combine to destroy the Society 204
By Graham Southall-Edwards
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Letters   205-208

-The Society
-Retention fees
-Venous thromboembolism
-Social capital
-Pharmacist attire
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Agenda for 2007   209

Agenda articles

What will pharmacists want from a new professional leadership body? 209
There has been much correspondence in the columns of The Journal over issues arising from the Government's recent White Paper on health professional regulation. Representatives from the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists, the Royal Pharm-aceutical Society Hospital Pharmacists Group, the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association and the College of Pharmacy Practice met recently to discuss these issues
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Articles   210-213

Pharmacy around the world
What can the NHS learn from health care provision in other countries? 210-213
Cathal Gallagher and Nathalie Bailey-Flitter examine the provision of prescription-only medicines in Australia and Ireland and attempt to assess which elements of these provisions would improve health care resource allocation in the NHS
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Industrial Pharmacist (newsletter)   insert

Industrial Pharmacist Group

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Retail Round-up (journal)   insert

Retail Round-up

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Onlooker   214

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The strange attraction of odd numbers, but not 13! 214
Numbers have all sorts of strange connections in the human mind. There is something about even ones that lend a sense of repose, whereas the odd ones suggest that we have not reached the end of the line of thought, and therefore call for further investigation
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Mountain ash charms and challenges 214
The mountain ash, or, as it is often called, the rowan, is a graceful and highly attractive tree, now starting to display its scarlet fruit
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Chemical reactions without a solvent 214
For centuries alchemists have carried out reactions that do not call for a special solvent as adjuvant. Grinding solids together in a mortar in order to persuade them to interact, even hammering them together, has been regarded as one method of producing a new substance from crude natural ores. However, many different solvents have been employed to facilitate reactions between different compounds
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Myths and mankind / Dogma and lucre 214
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Pharmacy practice framework evaluated by patients and public 215
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Jacob Bell's contribution to art celebrated in new online exhibition 215
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Pharmacy Now August issue available online 215
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Pharmacy 2020
Looking ahead to 2020: economics, health care policy and pharmacy 216-217
In this fourth article in a series leading to a consultation among members about the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Pharmacy 2020 project, Clive Smee, former chief economic adviser at the Department of Health, looks at economics and health care, particularly in England
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Obituaries & tributes 218
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Obituaries
-Duckworth
-Efthymiou
-Fisher
-Hogarth
-Jhina
-Sterling
-Tasker

Tributes
-Efthymiou
-Fisher
-Sterling

Diary
Diary / Health events

Future events 203
-Pharmacy technicians (September)
-Respiratory study day (4 October)
-Managing medicines (16 October)
-Hypertension prescribing (5 November)
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Resources 203
-PPI Specialist Library
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