The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 pp581-610 No 7502
17 May 2008

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Leading Articles   582

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Time for reflection 582
This year’s election figures — for the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and two of the three national pharmacy boards — can only be described as sobering. Despite great efforts on behalf of the Society this year to persuade members to vote, the turnout for the Council election was about 16 per cent — down from just over 20 per cent when the last election took place in 2006
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Why talking to patients makes sense 582
Shared decision-making between clinician and patient has been advocated for at least 25 years and the idea of concordance has been on the pharmacy agenda for well over five years. Now the think tank Demos has caught up with the idea and produced a report in which it spells out the health benefits of talking to patients
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News & Features   583-590

News summary  583-590
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Lead stories
-Three new faces elected to Council as voting fails
-Clarke adds urgency to call for transitional committee to prepare new leadership body
-Deputy Registrar appointed as Society FTP head leaves
-NPA responds to polyclinic threat to community pharmacy network
-Cancer pharmacists recognised in patient survey
-Demos highlights importance of talking to patients
-Direct distribution no immediate threat to quality
-Avoid parallel-imported Clexane
-Efavirenz more effective than lopinavir/ritonavir
-Reconsider advice on beta-blocker use in surgery

Products   591

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Products   591
-New medicines
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
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Drug tariff updates   591
-England and Wales (May prescriptions)
-Testosterone capsules
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Broad Spectrum   592

Why we all must be allowed to buy emergency contraception in advance 592
By Ellie Levenson
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Letters   593-595

-Professional body
-Terminology
-Ophthalmology
-Science programme
-General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
-Euthanasia
-Training
-Minority languages
-Combivent
-Patents and generics
-Miss Tracy's Mixture
-Four nations
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Interview   596

Hemant Patel reflects on his presidency   596
Dawn Connelly talks to Hemant Patel, who retires as President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society next week, about his hopes for the future and his reflections on the past 15 years on the Council, including four terms as President
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Articles   597-602

Introduction to community pharmacy: the University of Manchester experience 597-598
The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Manchester has adopted a novel approach in an attempt to provide pharmacy undergraduates with an understanding of the role of the community pharmacist and exposure to the community pharmacy environment. Ian Smith and Jason Hall explain
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Automated dispensing
Pharmacy robots in UK hospitals: the benefits and implementation issues 599-602
Stephen Goundrey-Smith looks at the introduction of automated dispensing systems into UK hospitals and examines evidence for their benefits
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   603-606

Recent articles

Malaria: the issues and advice   603-606
Using case studies, Sarah Marshall takes a practical look at the role pharmacists in the UK can play in malaria prevention
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Glow-worm   607

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Medicinal uses of lobelia, old and new 607
The genus Lobelia includes some 375 species, including annuals, perennials, shrubs and even trees. Most are native to tropical and warm temperate regions. Several herbaceous species are popular in gardens and thrive in moist, shady and semi-shady locations
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Dangers of swapping frogspawn 607
Our garden pond has recently been a teeming mass of tadpoles, and the huge blobs of spawn that adorned the water’s surface a few weeks earlier have now disappeared
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Exploring the origins of syphilis 607
A long-held theory, often hotly debated, suggests that the explorer Christopher Columbus and his crew brought the venereal disease syphilis to Europe from the New World
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Official notices 2001 to present

Council elections 2008 608
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English Pharmacy Board election 2008 608
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Welsh Pharmacy Board election 2008 608
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Annual general meeting 609
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Health Committee 610
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Obituaries & tributes 610

Obituaries
-Blythe
-Chambers
-Deighton
-Lane
-Lewis
-McDevitt
-Newcomb

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 610
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Society meetings 608-609
-Equipping our students for a changing profession (10 November)
-Tableting technology for the pharmaceutical industry (24-26 November)
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Resources 591
-Mental health
-Public health library
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Reunions 591
-Aston University 1968
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