Comment

An Onlooker's Notebook 470

• Dark depression
• World of webs
• Laughing to drop
• Vain strivings

Leading Article 471

• Governance or direction?

News 472-474

• Territorial army to recruit more pharmacists 472
• A month's grace in Scotland for PPRS cuts 472
• Pharmacists to train other health professionals in the Black Country 472
• Pharmaid 1999 472
• New FP10s cause eczema? 473
• Pharmacy stand at Labour Party conference 473
• Ranitidine to become GSL 473
• Australian parliamentarians oppose supermarket pharmacies 473
• New Viagra guidance 473
• NPA assistants' training passes 2,300 474
• France plans reimbursement based on effectiveness 474
• GP/pharmacist co-operation could save £26m in Scotland 474
• POD check extension 474

Clinical Pharmacy 475-477

• No fall in the rate of neural tube defects, researchers say 475
• New insulin analogue launched 475
• Topiramate as an appetite suppressant? 475
• Vaccine shortage 475
• Simple nevirapine regimen for preventing HIV transmission 476
• Schering plans to market progestogen-only emergency contraceptive 476
• New hypnotic might be taken during the night 476
• Fluoxetine licensed for severe PMS 477
• Plastic bottle spacers 477
• Asthma vaccine at very early stage of development 477
• Immunisation via hair follicles? 477

Business 478

• David Taylor to chair Mawdsley-Brooks 478
• French rebate restriction unlawful 478
• July retail sales figures 478
• Boots wants 200 edge-of-town stores 478
• Numark increases rebates 478

The Society 479-482

• Society publishes framework for clinical governance in pharmacy 479-481
• PJOnline update 482
• Millennium advice card 482
• Birdsgrove House announces first stress management weekend 482

Letters to the Editor 483-485

• A backward looking article 483
• Part of the team 483
• Send the letter to MPs 483
• Pharmacist access 484
• Preserving the brand 484
• More colour please! 484
• Exploration of data 485
• Saving scheme 485
• PJ does it again! 485
• Wonderful 485

Continuing Education 486-488

• Hypertension: (4) Recent advances in hypertension (C. Spencer and G. Lip

The Conference 489-503

• Keynote address 489
• Community pharmacy sessions - new roles 490-491
• Community pharmacy sessions - new challenges 491-493
• Breakfast with Kane - pharmacist prescribing 494
• New Society logo launched 495
• Australian exhibitor sees interest in information kiosks 495
• Tributes to Dr Chamberlain 495
• Commonwealth pharmacists train in Scotland 495
• Hospital pharmacy sessions 496-501
• Banquet 503
• Closing session 503

Products 504-505

• Eloxatin infusion 504
• Synagis injection 504
• Novorapid injections 504
• New indication for Prozac 504
• Additional indication for Pariet 504
• Anadin Cold Control 505
• Pharmaton capsules 505
• Discontinued 505
• Distribution change 505
• Blood pressure booklet 505
• Black cohosh 505
• Jointace capsules 505
• Redclover food supplement 505
• Price changes 505

Notice-Board 506

• Diary 506
• Drug Tariff Updates 506
• Official notices 506