The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 pp35-68 No 7485
19 January 2008

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Leading Articles   36

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It is not too late to be heard 36
With less than two weeks left to submit thoughts and ideas to the Clarke Inquiry — commissioned by the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society but independently examining what a professional body for pharmacy might look like and do — more voices are now being heard
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Are you proud of your achievements? 36
This issue sees the launch of a new series “My career”
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News & Features   37-46

News summary  37-42
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Lead stories
-Innovation needs a new approach
-MPs back pharmacist role in screening
-NPA seeks second chief in a year following White's abrupt departure
-PSNC wants pharmacy to be main provider for minor ailment care
-Pharmacist should almost always be on premises
-Training of paediatric prescribers by pharmacists needs evaluating
-Guidance on sexual boundaries launched by CHRE
-Patient-controlled fentanyl device requires no needle

Should Scottish pharmacy go it alone? 43-44
Pharmacy’s future professional body is currently being considered by the Clarke Inquiry. Last week, it heard evidence in Edinburgh. Clare Bellingham asks leading pharmacists in Scotland: should Scotland have its own professional body?
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Patient surveys: March deadline looms 45
With just over two months to go before contractors in England will need to have completed their first annual patient satisfaction surveys, Dawn Connelly looks at the experiences of contractors who have finished their surveys and urges others to get started
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Safeguarding patients as biosimilar medicines enter clinical practice 46
As more biosimilar products are approved for use, safeguards will need to be put in place to protect patients, a group of MPs warned last week. Tom Moberly looks at the group’s recommendations and some of the other issues raised by this new wave of medicines
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Products   47

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Products   47
-New medicines
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Supply issues
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Announcements   47
-Society media campaigns
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Drug tariff updates   47
-England and Wales
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Broad Spectrum   48

Can CPD guarantee fitness to practise? 48
By Janet Dyke and Wendy Gidman
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Letters   49-54

-Industrial pharmacists
-Community pharmacy
-Responsible pharmacist
-Package design
-The profession
-The Society
-Registration
-Statins
-Retirement
-Onlooker
-Caption competition
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Agenda   55-56

Agenda articles

Our Society’s future: are you bovvered? 55
When the Secretary of State for Health and civil servants suggested that a new “body with a role akin to a royal college” should replace the Royal Pharmaceutical Society as the professional leadership body, I suggested they should butt out of the Society’s affairs and I appealed to members to prove that we are perfectly capable of governing our profession without being bullied. I called for members to pull together to create our body for professional and clinical leadership
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Tiered levels of membership needed until a good track record is established 56
As both a regulator and the professional body for pharmacy, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has always been unique. This dual role has been both a strength and a weakness but, with the advent of the Government's White Paper recommending the separation of the regulatory function, this paradox is to go. The current question facing members and the Council is: what are we going to be left with? There have been numerous suggestions about royal colleges, representation and trade unions
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Articles   57-59

Landmark drugs
Prozac — is it worthy of the hype? 57-58
In the fourth article in a series on landmark drugs, John Donoghue takes a look at Prozac and the massive media attention it has received over the years. Has Prozac delivered what it promised?
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Support & services
Drug addiction is a disease and even pharmacists sometimes need support 59
By Fraser Harvie, on behalf of the pharmacists’ health support programme
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Meetings   60-61

Reports index

Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group
Trace analysis and the challenges for high sensitivity analytical methods 60-61
A recent symposium looked at the use of highly sensitive methods in pharmaceutical analysis. Joseph Chamberlain reports
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Accola   62

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Beginning of transatlantic friendship 62
Glory to God in the Highest, peace on earth, good will to men. So telegraphed Queen Victoria to President Buchanan of the US via the first transatlantic cable nearly 150 years ago, on 16 August 1858
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How the potato shaped history 62
The humble potato, a native of the Peruvian-Bolivian Andes, has played a large part in directing historical events. Without abundant food, provided mainly by potatoes, the Inca civilisation could not have flourished as it did in the severe climate of the Peruvian altiplano
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Sweating sickness mystery 62
As the world awaits an expected outbreak of pandemic influenza, it is of interest to consider the appearance of the previously unknown sweating sickness, or English sweat, some 500 years ago
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Changes to the arrangements for dealing with Controlled Drug requisitions — Part II 63
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The Society’s annual fitness to practise declaration: correction 64
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Official notices 2001 to present

Erasures from the Register on the direction of the Statutory Committee 64
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Disciplinary Committee 64
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Obituaries & tributes 64-65

Obituaries
-Brown
-Cameron
-Heap
-Jackson
-Row
-Wylie

Tributes
-Jackson
-Rowe

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Long service 65-67
1938 to 1948
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My career   68

Careers

Work of a falls prevention pharmacist 68
Pharmacists can reduce the risk of falls among elderly patients through a variety of interventions, says Jeremy Robson
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 65
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Society meetings 66
-Joint study day: Improving aseptic services (6 February)
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Future events 47
-Wolverhampton lecture (6 February)
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Resources 47
-fpa campaign packs
-Premises assessment
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