The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 pp137-164 No 7488
9 February 2008

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Articles   138

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Yellow card for MHRA 138
From the week after next, patients all over the UK are to be encouraged to fill in a yellow card — with the help of pharmacists — if they experience a side effect while taking a medicine. Patient involvement in the yellow card scheme was piloted in 2005 and found to be so successful that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency decided to roll it out across the UK
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Streamlining the referral process 138
The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has been concerned that there are far too many cases being referred to the Investigating Committee. The Society has launched a consultation exercise — “Consultation on cases for non-referral to the Investigating Committee”— to find out what the profession believes the threshold for referral should be, so that cases are dealt with in a “proportionate, effective and efficient manner without compromising patient safety”
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News & Features   139-145

News summary  139-145
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Lead stories
-PSNC complacent over purchase profits, say Tories
-Pharmacists to take lead in yellow card campaign aimed at patients
-New professional body should be built from Society
-Leaders needed to give body credibility, Clarke told
-Pharmacies say EPS not yet a viable proposition
-Weight management role promoted after data show obesity increases
-New statin side effects warning
-Adherence to thromboembolism guidance poor

Products   146-147

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Products   146-147
-New medicines
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Supply issues
-Products miscellany
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Broad Spectrum   148

Now is the time to take a risk, to take a chance and make a difference 148
By Catherine Duggan
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Letters   149-152

-Clarke Inquiry
-Minor ailment scheme
-EHC
-WCPPE
-Dispensing
-Community pharmacy
-PSNC
-Drug addiction
-The Society
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Meetings   153

Reports index

Practice-based commissioning
Practice-based commissioning: tips for preparing and pitching a proposal 153
Last week, groups of local pharmaceutical committee members and contractors got together to formulate a business case and to pitch their ideas to two primary care trust commissioners in a Dragons' Den style session. Dawn Connelly reports
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Reviews   154

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The pre-registration interview 154
by Nadia Bukhari
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Clinical pharmacokinetics 154
by John E. Murphy
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Geriatric pharmacotherapy: a guide for helping the professional 154
by C. Olsen, W. Tindall and M. Clasen
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Glow-worm   155

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Effect of sonar on whales 155
Conservationists have recently highlighted incidences of whales being stranded in hotspots around the world, including an area between the north east coast of Scotland and Norway, as a direct result of excessive noise from both military and commercial activity
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Oxalic acid — the beekeeper’s friend 155
Over the past 15 or so years, scores of ethical products and packed goods have vanished from wholesalers’ price lists, and products that were once ordered by the dozen, such as boric acid crystals and powdered alum, are now nigh on impossible to source
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Many ways in which pets can be poisoned accidentally 155
One morning last summer my wife asked me to look at our pet rabbit, because she feared it had died during the night as it had not emerged from its sleeping area, which was customary behaviour when fresh food and water was offered
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Consultation   insert

Consultation on cases for non-referral to the Investigating Committee insert
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has conducted a review of the fitness to practise cases that are currently considered by the Investigating Committee and would like your views on the proposals for non-referral of cases to the Investigating Committee
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From the branches: Can the Society form the basis for a royal college-type professional body 157
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Statutory Committee Reports
Pharmacist struck off for waste management offences and health and safety failures 156
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Reprimands follow false fitness-to-practise declarations 156-157
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Official notices 2001 to present
Council election 2008 158
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English Pharmacy Board election 2008 158-159
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Scottish Pharmacy Board election 2008 159
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Welsh Pharmacy Board election 2008 159-160
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Disciplinary Committee 160
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Obituaries & tributes 160-161

Obituaries
-Bristow
-Burnett
-Crabtree
-Crispin
-Pinnick
-Robinson
-Sanghera

Tributes
-Brown
-Dickman
-Jackson

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Long service 162-163
1957
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My career   164

Careers

Independent community contractor 164
A community pharmacy career can place you at the cutting edge of health policy development, says one independent contractor. Sue Laird reports
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 161-162
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Society meetings 163
-Cannabinoid medicines (10 March)
-Stability testing of pharmaceuticals (18-20 February)
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Future events 147
-UKCPA/GHP 2008
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Awards 147
-TEVA leadership award
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Resources 147
-Parkinson's disease
-Drug treatment guidance
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