The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 pp1-34 No 7484
5/12 January 2008

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Leading Article   2

Evolution, not revolution 2
From this issue, The Journal is focusing its coverage of Royal Pharmaceutical Society matters in a slightly different way than it has in recent years. The changes, however, are evolutionary rather than revolutionary
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News & Features   3-11

News summary  3-10
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Lead stories
-Antimicrobial pharmacist funding boost announced
-Pharmacy staff key in safe transfer of patients during Marsden blaze
-Launch of internet pharmacy logo to help protect consumers
-Two pharmacists recognised in New Year honours list
-PM pledges to strengthen screening and prevention
-Technicians in Scotland to be registered by Society
-MPs call for brand-only prescribing for biotech drugs
-Europe's public supports further development of community pharmacy services to widen choice
-Community pharmacists must not miss the boat with commissioning
-Pharmacy graduates motivated by career and promotion prospects
-New pseudoephedrine sales restrictions confirmed

Internet pharmacy logo adds credibility 11
An internet pharmacy logo is launched this week. It allows members of the public to verify that websites are registered with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and helps them to avoid those selling medicines illegally. Dawn Connelly reports
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Products   12-13

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Products   12
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Products miscellany
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Announcements   12-13
-Meropenem SPC
-Schwartz products
-University of Bradford
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Broad Spectrum   14

Why government should promote not cut investment in pharmacy education 14
By Anthony Smith and David Taylor
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Letters   15-19

-The profession
-Controlled drugs
-Supervision
-Influenza
-Prescribing
-Glaucoma care
-Drug development
-Christmas
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Interview   20-21

Alex Gourlay: Boots’s man at the top 20-21
The first pharmacist managing director of Boots UK Limited speaks to Tom Moberly about his role, its challenges and his hopes for the future
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Original papers   22-25

Improving patient safety: reducing medication errors through use of acceptable, accessible medicines packaging 22-25
By R. A. Hughes, A. J. Carr, M. Carr and M. Walsh
Aim — To identify a packaging design that is acceptable (easy to open and retrieve medicine) to patients with inflammatory arthritis and establish patient preference for packaging designs
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Articles   26

Statutory regulation of pharmacy technicians appearing on the horizon 26
In this article Christine Gray, head of corporate governance at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, urges pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to have their say in the Department of Health’s consultation on an amending order that will update some of pharmacy’s regulatory provisions
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   27-30

Recent articles

Clinical developments in 2007   27-30
In our first CPD article of the year, Harriet Adcock highlights some of the important clinical developments of the past 12 months and reviews the medicines that came to market along with some of the more significant drug safety issues that surfaced in 2007
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Glow-worm   31

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Oldest clone in the world 31
King’s Lomatia (Lomatia tasmanica) is an unusual plant that grows along the banks of streams in the cool, dense rainforest of the Tasmanian wilderness. A member of the Proteaceae family, it was discovered and named in the 1960s. It is highly endangered and is found in only two tiny localities, the total population comprising approximately 500 plants
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Bright classrooms hampering bright pupils 31
For children throughout the ages one of the most oft repeated admonishments from parents must be the advice not to read in bed by candlelight or torchlight after lights out as it will cause strain and damage to the eyes
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Wool and gabardine were effective in providing protection at high altitude 31
There is a photograph of the party of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine’s 1924 expedition party shortly before their ultimately ill-fated attempt on the summit of Everest, one of the most striking features of which is the clothing worn by the group. They are dressed in what appear to be tweed jackets with long woollen scarves tossed over their shoulders, and could easily be a group of friends about to embark on a Sunday afternoon ramble on the fells
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Copying of registration certificates 32
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Restrictions on the sale of plano (zero powered), cosmetic contact lenses 32
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Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists
MEP page

January 2008 amendments 32
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Official notices 2001 to present

Erasures from the Register on the direction of the Statutory Committee 33
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Interim Order33
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Obituaries & tributes 33

Obituaries
Bailey, Bentley, Burrell, Cottingham, Dickman, Donalson, Halliday, Hyman, Jilka, Kalmanovitch, Marsh, Mason, Parkinson, Roseby, Shaw, Yeomans

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Long service 34
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 33-34
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Society meetings 33
-Symposium: The control of infectious diseases — virulence, antibiotics and bacterial infection (30 January)
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Future events 13
-CPD (20 January)
-Prescribing (22 January)
-Non-medical prescribers (5 February)
-Young people's health (6 February)
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Awards 13
-Ask About Medicines
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Corrections 13
-Jean Coote
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