The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 pp313-336 No 7470
22 September 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   314

Take action today! 314
Monday 24 September 2007 is the first day of pharmacy practice-based commissioning week. This may not sound like a barrel of laughs, but for all those pharmacists in England who have not yet made any attempt to become involved with PBC, now is their chance
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News & Features   315-322

News summary  315-320
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Lead stories
-Pharmacy set for further involvement in primary care
-CBI points out faults in PCT commissioning
-People's view of NHS sought
-National minor ailment scheme ambitions given boost by Secretary of State for Health
-International suppliers of fake drugs convicted
-Practice-based commissioning awareness week
-Zoledronic acid once yearly after hip fracture improves survival rate
-Pharmacists should check medicines on admission
-MPs criticise clarity of plans for NHS care records

How to make pharmacy's voice heard 321-322
Pharmacists are often accused of doing too little to promote themselves and the profession to those in power. To coincide with the party conference season, Tom Moberly looks at what pharmacists can do to raise their profile with politicians and to increase understanding of issues affecting pharmacy
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Products   323

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Products   323
-New medicines
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
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Announcements   323
-Vividrin
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Broad Spectrum   324

The final nail in pharmacists' coffin? 324
By Stephen Axon
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Letters   325-327

-Sponsored inserts
-Dose administration aids
-White Paper
-Prescribing
-100-hour pharmacies
-Retention fees
-The Society
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Community Pharmacist (newsletter)   insert

Community Pharmacist Group

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Onlooker   328

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Eclipse of the honeybee 328
A comment in the 25 August 2007 issue of The Lancet draws attention to the unanswered question of where our accustomed population of honeybees has gone. There have been reports that beekeepers have recently found that many hives have been left deserted at a time when activity is to be expected in the normal course of events
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Care of the elderly should be viewed as a human right 328
An editorial in the 25 August 2007 issue of The Lancet explains how the care of the aged should be viewed among the many issues of human rights. The matter has been thrown into prominence by the reports of hurricane damage in the new world and the suffering this has caused in populations, particularly of the very young and very old
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More details emerge on the Schiller mystery 328
When the poet Friedrich Schiller died in 1805 of tuberculosis at the age of 45 he was buried in a common grave. In 1826 attempts were made to exhume his remains but found more than a dozen skulls in the grave. The local mayor in Weimar maintained that the largest was Schiller’s, but serious doubts persisted
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Accelerated spread of new infectious diseases is unprecedented 328
According to a report in the 1 September 2007 issue of the BMJ, infectious diseases are increasing their rate of spread more rapidly than before. The World Health Organization has stated that new diseases are emerging at the unprecedented rate of one each year
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Society to promote the pharmacy profession at party conferences 329
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Museum launches two new information sheets 329
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Patients may not legally extemporaneously compound a product that contains a Controlled Drug 329
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Pharmacy 2020
Pharmacists must learn to play their part in multidisciplinary health teams 330-332
In this eighth article in a series leading to a consultation about the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Pharmacy 2020 project, Alison Blenkinsopp, professor of the practice of pharmacy at Keele University, and Christine Bond, professor of general practice and primary care at the University of Aberdeen, discuss the potential for pharmacy teams to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of care delivered to patients
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Practice-based commissioning
Securing pharmacy's place in the new world of practice-based commissioning 333-334
In this article, Heidi Wright, from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Practive and Quality Improvement Directorate, Barbara Parsons, from the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, and Trish O'Gorman, from the Improvement Foundation, describe how practice-based commissioning allows pharmacists to become more involved in service planning and delivery
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Official notices 2001 to present

Statutory Committee inquiries 335
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Disciplinary Committee inquiries 335
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Disciplinary Committee decisions 335
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Obituaries & tributes 336

Obituaries
-Ashwell
-Brown
-Bye
-Gidney
-Morgan
-Williams
-Wood

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 336
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Reunions 323
-Aston 1977
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Resources 323
-Flu immunisation
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