Hospital Pharmacist
Vol 13 pp265-304 No 8
September 2006

Jobs and Classified advertising

Comment   266

Progress in gene therapy — are hospital pharmacies the next barrier? 266
By Julie Simpson, MRPharmS
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News   269-271

News summary  269-271
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-Medicines management reflects trusts' strengths and weaknesses
-Consultation on NHS pension changes under way for staff in England and Wales
-Medical research compromised by new laws and budgets, doctors warn
-UK hospitals are poorly prepared for a major incident
-Independent prescribers could qualify by the end of the year
-MPs briefed on hospital pharmacy

Special feature: Acromegaly   273-288

Life-long learning

— clinical manifestations and diagnosis 273-278
Acromegaly is a clinical condition caused by the hypersecretion of growth hormone, usually as a result of a benign tumour in the pituitary gland. The first part of this special feature describes the clinical features and diagnosis of the condition
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— treatment options and management 281-288
Acromegaly is usually treated by surgery to remove the pituitary adenoma, but adjunctive treatment with drugs and radiotherapy is also necessary. This article describes the treatment options and the importance of long-term monitoring
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Careers   289-290

Careers

A career as … a supplementary prescriber 289-290
By Anthony Young, MSc, MRPharmS, Helen Pickles, MSc, MRPharmS, Kathleen Boyle, MRPharmS, Mark Thomas, MRPharmS, Nicola Rudall, MSc, MRPharmS, Neil Gammack, MSc, MRPharmS, David Sproates, MRPharmS and June Beeby, MRPharmS
Eight pharmacists are currently registered as supplementary prescribers at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. This article describes their roles, in order to provide an insight into the opportunities presented by this way of working
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Articles   291-294

Assessing junior doctors — how pharmacists can be prepared 291-294
By Barry Jubraj, MSc, MRPharmS, MCPP
Following changes to the training of junior doctors, hospital pharmacists may now be asked to play a formal role in their assessment. This article describes the tool that pharmacists will use to do this, and how one pharmacy department is taking steps to prepare pharmacists for this role
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Papers   295-298

Shelf-life prediction of intravenous busulfan by isothermal calorimetry 295-298
By Simon Gaisford, PhD, MRSC, Michael O’Neill, PhD, Lucy Thompson, BSc, MRPharmS,
and Kai-Loke Chan, BPharm, PGDip, MRPharmS
OBJECTIVE To use isothermal calorimetry to measure the degradation of reconstituted busulfan at a number of elevated temperatures and to use these data to determine whether the shelf-life of the product could safely be increased from its current period of 15h
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Focus on technicians   299-300

Focus on technicians

Developing a database to manage use of unlicensed medicines 299-300
By Paul Townsend
When an unlicensed medicine is prescribed, various administrative requirements need to be met before the drug can be dispensed. To manage these, a database has been developed at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, which is described in this article
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Life-long learning   301-302

Life-long learning

QUESTIONS: Acromegaly 301-302
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ANSWERS: Venous thromboembolism 302
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