The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 pp699-742 No 7483
22/29 December 2007

The Pharmaceutical Journal, 22/29 December 2007

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List of Contents

Leading article
News
News feature

COMMENT
Broad spectrum
Letters


Onlooker

NEWSLETTER
Industrial Pharmacist (December)

Christmas page including closures
Christmas Miscellany

THE SOCIETY

December Council meeting
• Responsible pharmacist

News
• BPC
• New fellows

Official notices
Branch/Society meetings


JOURNAL NOTICE-BOARD   PDF (30K)
Products
Drug recall (Woodward's Gripe Water)
Awards
Corrections

Christmas closures

Jobs and Classified advertising



Leading Article   700

Christmas name game 700
As part of The Journal’s efforts to encourage more people to stand in next year’s Royal Pharmaceutical Society Council election we invited about 30 movers and shakers across pharmacy to name colleagues and contacts who have the right combination of authority, vision and personality to help lead the emerging professional body. To broaden the reach we stipulated that they should not have served on Council before. So, in no particular order and with no comment, we present…
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News & Features   701-708

News summary  701-706
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Lead stories
-Shorter MUR form will aid communication with GPs
-AstraZeneca reveals discounts for its direct-to-pharmacy scheme
-Scottish health action plan makes use of pharmacy
-London oral contraception PGD plans are advanced
-Studies support continued use of trastuzumab
-IPM sees Society as foundation of professional body
-Ranibizumab dose-cap scheme for AMD patients revealed by NICE


2007: A year of upheaval for pharmacy 707-708
With the announcement of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s divorce from regulation, uproar over proposed fee increases and the start of the “responsible pharmacist” consultation, it has been a year of considerable change for pharmacy. Tom Moberly looks back over 2007
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Products   709

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Products   709
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Supply issues
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Recalled products   709
-Woodward's Gripe Water
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Broad Spectrum   710

Building up pharmacy’s power base 710
By Stephen Goundrey-Smith
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Letters   711-713

-WCPPE
-Retention fees
-The Society
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Industrial Pharmacist (newsletter)   insert

Industrial Pharmacist Group

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Onlooker   714

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Frankincense and Boswellia plantChristmas — a time for frankincense 714
At this time of year we hear much about the three royal gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, which were brought to Bethlehem by the three kings
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The menace of noise — coping with machines and raised voices 714
Noise has been defined as the effect on the senses of an irregular or a periodic wave of sound. It implies that our ear is being assailed by undesired stimuli, whether created deliberately or resulting from the unplanned interference of vibrations
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The Society    715-718

Also in this section

Official notices
Branch/Society meetings

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December Council meeting
Council meeting reports

December Council meeting 715
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Council responds to responsible pharmacist consultation 715-716
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Further annotations to the Register possible 716
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SOCIETY NEWS

Sunday opening and new £25 members’ admission for BPC 2008 716
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Thirteen members designated as fellows of Society 717
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Official notices 2001 to present

New fellows 718
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Erasures from the Register on the direction of the Statutory Committee 718
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Disciplinary Committee 718
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Christmas miscellany   719-742

Christmas miscellany 2007

COMPETITIONS

721 How many animals can you spot? Readers of this year’s Christmas Miscellany may notice that we have chosen various members of the animal kingdom to illustrate the articles and add some extra colour to our 24 pages
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742 Enter The Journal’s caption competition Closing date is 8 January 2008
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 718
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Awards 709
-CPP awards
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Corrections 709
-Raynaud's phenomenon
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