The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 pp423-454 No 7474
20 October 2007

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Leading Article   424

Obesity is the new smoking 424
Five years ago, obesity and people who were overweight cost the UK just under £7bn in terms of treatment, state benefits, loss of earnings and reduced productivity
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News & Features   425-434

News summary, including R&D  425-433
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Lead stories
-Prescribing practice predisposed patients to C difficile
-Routine inspection of no value, say pharmacy bodies
-Respond swiftly to phase 2 of Lord Darzi's review
-NPA speaks out over category M
-BOPA to establish a faculty of oncology pharmacy
-Statins provide lasting protection against MI
-Discount shops defy MHRA over paracetamol sales
-Mixed results for factor X inhibitor as VTE treatment
-Pain relieved without numbness

HTLV specialist pharmacist appointed 434
A pharmacist in London may well be the first in the world to specialise in the management of a rare viral infection that can cause debilitating myelopathy. Dawn Connelly finds out about the virus and what the specialist role involves
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Products   435

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SPC changes   435
Aclasta
Broflex
Gabitril
Discontinued products
Minulet and Tri-Minulet
Novo Nordisk insulins
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Announcements   435
-Intravenous ciclosporin
-Electronic prescriptions
-Metoject
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Recalled roducts   435
-Warfarin tablets
-Boots brand blood glucose monitoring system
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Broad Spectrum   436

Why managing the nation's drug bill needs a political change of direction 436
By Mike Beaman
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Letters   437-440

- Enhanced services
- Prescribing
- Supply
- Pricing
- Supervision
- Law
- White Paper
- Open day
- The Society
- Controlled Drugs
- Publications
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Original papers   441-444

Assessing the accuracy of influenza diagnosis by pharmacists 441-444
By Douglas Fleming
Aim — To assess the accuracy with which commhnity pharmacists are able to make a diagnosis of influenza
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Meetings   445-448

Reports index

British Oncology Pharmacists Association
Plans to establish a faculty of oncology pharmacy will address accreditation 445-446
BOPA members voted in favour of forming a faculty of oncology pharmacy in collaboration with the College of Pharmacy Practice. Matthew Wright reports
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Primary and Community care Pharmacy Network
Moving services successfully from acute trusts into the community 447-8
A conference focused on shifting care into the community and how pharmacists and pharmacy services can contribute to this. Iben Altman, from South Downs Health NHS Trust, and Theresa Rutter, from East and South East England Specialist Pharmacy services, report
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Reviews   449

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Oxford handbook of clinical pharmacy 449
by Philip Whiffen
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Clinical governance in a changing NHS 449
eds Myriam Lugon and Jonathan Secker-Walker
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Paediatric drug handling 449
by Ian K. Wong, Catherine Tulue, Ian Costello, Vincent Yeung and Paul Long
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Accola   450

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Spotted coach dog - a thrilling sight 450
The Dalmatian has served as fire-apparatus follower (mainly in the US), sentinel, war dog, hunter, shepherd, circus performer and rescue dog
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Promoting photography for everyone 450
With photography well into the digital age it is good to remember the man who did most to promote large-scale amateur photography
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A healthy pursuit 450
Allotments are now a world away from the flat-cap-and-whippet image from which they have suffered in the past
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Topiary - a tradition since roman times 450
Topiary, the training of living trees and shrubs into artificial shapes, is back in vogue again after several decades in the doldrums
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SOCIETY NEWS

Society leads the way for handling medicines in social care settings 451
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Wessex region hears of possible new clinical roles for pharmacists 451
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BPSA urges students to respond to Pharmacy 2020 consultation 452
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Consultations on education reform under way 452
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Evolution of pharmacy 452
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Legal and Ethical Advisory Service fact sheet changes 452
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Official notices 2001 to present

Erasure from the Register 453
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Disciplinary Committe interim order 453
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Statutory Committee inquiries 453
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Obituaries & tributes 453-454

Obituaries
-Baker
-Rusling

Tribute
-Rusling

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 454
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Future events 454
-PDIG (8 November)
-Anti-counterfeiting (20-21 November)
-Bio-Entrepreneurs (26-28 Febuary 2008)
-Cardiovascular disease (11 March 2008)
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