The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 pp369-388 No 7472
6 October 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Articles   370

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A rock and a hard place 370
Community pharmacy contractors — in England and Wales at least — are caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, they face the recovery of £400m by the end of the financial year due to realignment of Category M prices and, on the other, the fact that few clinical services have been commissioned as a result of the new community pharmacy contract, introduced in April 2005. This has resulted in most contractors believing that they are less well off
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Where will pharmacy be in 2020? 370
Last week The Journal pointed out that the series of articles underpinning the Pharmacy 2020 initiative was coming to an end. This week, it is the turn of members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and others interested in the development of pharmacy to outline their ideas
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News & Features   371-378

News summary  371-377
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Lead stories
-Contractors to be hit by significant drop in income
-Angry reaction across the board to latest Category M price changes
-CCA criticises lack of transparency in fees rationale
-War of words breaks out over rural Scottish services
-Software solutions could couple symptoms with drug side effects
-Academic super-trust for London
-Strategy launched to improve clinical skills of pharmacists and others in Scotland
-Pharmacist interventions improve HbA_1c levels, not other outcomes

First impressions of free prescriptions 378
Six months after prescription charges were scrapped in Wales, Tom Moberly asks for some first impressions of the impact of the change on prescribing habits and pharmacists' workloads and considers the lessons it might have for those reviewing charges in England and Scotland
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Products   379

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Products   379
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Supply issues
-Discontinued products
-Products miscellany
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Broad Spectrum   380

Why heroin needs a criminal focus and “shooting galleries” are not a good idea 380
By Terry Maguire
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Letters   381-383

-NHS leadership
-Open Day
-Retention fees
-White Paper
-Supply chain
-The Society
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Veterinary Pharmacist (newsletter)   insert

Veterinary Pharmacist Group

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Footler   384

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Gecko-mussel power 384
Glues have come a long way since we boiled animal bones, skins and horns. Nowadays a wide range of adhesives is available
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Diagnosis through the music of the genes 384
Music fascinates us, whether it be the sublime Elgar Cello Concerto, Pavarotti, Peter Paul and Mary or the latest racket hissing from a hoodie’s ear-buds
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Spoon improvements — might a spoon made of toffee help the medicine go down? 384
In the summer of 1937 the British Patents Office received an application for “Improvements in spoons”, made by Constance Winifred Honey
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Louis MacNiece centenary 384
The centenary of the birth, in Belfast, of the poet and playwright Louis MacNiece fell on 12 September 2007
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Pharmacy 2020
Pharmacy 2020 consultation seeks views to inform the future 385
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New Regulation covering Special Resolutions is now in force 385
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BPC helps pharmacy practice and science make national news 385
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Scottish registration ceremony 385
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Using BPC and the media to promote pharmacy to a national audience 386-387
Jean-Pierre Moser, head of corporate communications at the Society, reports on the success of the PR activity at this year's British Pharmaceutical Conference, which resulted in substantial pharmacy coverage in print-based, broadcast and online media
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Society will listen to members views on fee increase proposals, says Jeremy Holmes 387
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Jeremy Holmes admires Scottish community pharmacy services 387
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Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists
MEP page

October 2007 amendments 387
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Official notices 2001 to present

Disciplinary Committee 388
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 388
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Future events 379
-Nutrition (6 November)
-Patient information (15 November)
-EPU congress (9-11 November)
-Cardiology (7-8 December)
-Ophthalmic pharmacists (4 December)
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Corrections 379
-Atriance
-Heather Simmonds
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