The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 pp485-514 No 7476
3 November 2007

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Leading Article   486

Burden or liberation? 486
Another week in pharmacy and another consultation is launched — presenting the profession with a second major development in just 10 days. Last week the Department of Health set out its proposals on the “responsible pharmacist”. In brief, the ideas underpinning the responsible pharmacist will supersede the concept of personal control, iron out legal anomalies in the Medicines Act 1968 and other legislation that prevails in the different home countries of the UK, and pave the way for the more controversial decisions that will be made in a year or so’s time over supervision
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News & Features   487-494

News summary  487-492
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Lead stories
-Responsible pharmacist proposals need exploration
-BMA supports APPG on pharmacy services
-Professional body inquiry launches call for evidence
-Stop press: fees decision
-Overarching regulator proposes new set of sanctions
-Pharmacy to be represented on Darzi advisory group
-Varenicline to be issued by PGD in City and Hackney
-Rise in hospital drug costs revealed
-LTCs make accessing services difficult

Professional body inquiry under way 493
The independent inquiry into what form a future professional leadership body might take has started. Mike Thompson reports
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Responsible pharmacist
Responsible pharmacist: views sought 494
Last week, the Department of Health launched its formal consultation on the “responsible pharmacist”. Dawn Connelly looks at the background to the consultation and gives an overview of the issues on which views are being sought over the next 12 weeks
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Products   495

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Products   495
-Discontinued products
-Prescription products
-Supply issues
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Announcements   495
-Xyzal oral solution
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Recalls & alerts   495
-Counterfeit Durex condoms
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Broad Spectrum   496

Will some pharmacists be more equal? 496
By Jonathan Buisson
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Letters   497-500

-Certificates
-Publications
-The profession
-Supervision
-Community pharmacy
-Pack sizes
-Clinical trials
-Clostridium difficile
-The Journal
-Postgraduate education
-Retention fees
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Original papers   501-503

General practitioners’ perceptions of medicines use reviews by pharmacists 501-503
By Michael Wilcock and Geoffrey Harding
Aim — To explore GPs’ perceptions of community pharmacist-conducted medicines use reviews (MURs)
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Articles   504-505

How community pharmacists can help raise public awareness of lung cancer 504-505
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the UK. Joanna Lumb looks at how pharmacists can help to increase awareness of the disease, at new ideas about sex differences in lung cancer, and at how a hospital pharmacist is helping to improve the safety of oral chemotherapy
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Meetings   506

Reports index

Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
Spotlight on service opportunities 506
The theme of this conference was “learning from leaders”. Participants heard about several leading edge pharmacy services,which highlighted opportunities in public health and long-term conditions management. Dawn Connelly reports
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Reviews   507

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Pharmaceutical compounding and dispensing 507
by John F. Marriott, Keith A. Wilson, Christopher A. Langley and Dawn Belcher
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Pharmacovigilance 507
by Ronald D. Mann and Elizabeth B. Andrews
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Asthma in focus 507
by Anna Murphy
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Registered Technician (newsletter)   insert

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Ginger snaps   508

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Liberates strange dreams 508
Bearded, stocky beat poet Allen Ginsberg has just sampled the psilocybin in Timothy Leary’s magic mushrooms, causing him to throw off his clothes and proclaim himself the Messiah come to preach love to the world, thereby inventing hippies and also possibly Barry White …
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A modest proposal to help smokers quit 508
It is of course too early to tell whether the latest government campaign to convince smokers to quit by putting pictures of the end stages of smoking-related conditions (including death) on the packets will have any perceivable impact
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Does this ancient remedy really confer increased longevity? 508
Despite its name, Oleo europaea, the olive tree is Middle Eastern in origin, generally believed to have been first cultivated in Palestine. There are two subtypes, longifolia and latifolia; the latter’s fruits are larger but the longifolia has always been considered to give the best oil
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New practice guidance launched for early lung cancer detection 509
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Scottish Pharmacy Board hears DoH’s Jeannette Howe on Health Act 509
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New history of pharmacy CD 509
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Council’s response to BRM resolutions 510-511
This report, approved by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council at its October meeting, gives the Council’s response to the resolutions passed at the Society’s branch representatives’ meeting on 17 May 2007
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Pass rate of 81.2 per cent in the Society’s autumn registration examination 511
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Welsh Pharmacy Board events mean direct communication with members in Wales 511
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Welsh pharmacists have a key role in supporting healthy life-styles 511
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Official notices 2001 to present

Erasures from the Register on the direction of the Statutory Committee 512
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Disciplinary Committee 512
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Disciplinary Committee decisions 512
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Statutory Committee inquiries 512-513
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Registration examination successes 513
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Obituaries & tributes 513

Obituaries
-Burkitt
-Copland
-Dent
-Levey
-Slater
-Williams
-Young

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 514
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Society meetings 513
-Course: Tableting technology for the pharmaceutical industry (19-21 November)
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Future events 495
-Clarke enquiry (November-January 2008)
-Heart Research UK (6-7 December)
-UniChem conference (13-20 October 2008)
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Resources 495
-Rheumatoid arthritis
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Wants 495
-Nutrition and diet
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Corrections 495
-Nomad MDS
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