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December 2004 |
December 18 |
Eleanor Woodford
Eleanor M. Woodford is a PhD student at Aston University, not at the London School
of Pharmacy as stated in last week’s Journal (PJ, 11 December, p858).
Levothyroxine solution
In a letter from James
I. Wells published in last week’s Journal (PJ,
11 December, p852), the target dose of thyroxine should have been 10µg/ml
and the pore size of the filters should have been 0.47µm, and not
as stated. |
December 11 |
Steve Dunn
Steve Dunn is group managing director of AAH Pharmaceuticals. The managing director
of Lloydspharmacy is Justin Ash and not as suggested in a letter to The Journallast week (PJ, 20 November, p743). |
November 2004 |
November 27 |
Castle Hill Hospital
In the caption to a photograph of the opening of a new pharmacy at Castle Hill
Hospital (PJ, 6 November, p697), Scilla Smith should have been described as chairman
of the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
George Gannon
George Gannon’s name was misspelled in last week’s issue
(PJ, 20 November, p741 PDF (50K)). |
November 20 |
Additional information: Sultan Dajani
Further to our Broad spectrum article last
week (PJ, 13 November, p712), Sultan
Dajani’s contact e-mail address is SID2708@aol.com
Clarification: Safety awards
NHS Tayside and Down Lisburn Health and Social Services Trust won £1m Safer
Patient Awards, as well as Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust and Conwy and
Denbighshire NHS Trust (PJ, 13 November, p707).
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November 13 |
Clarification — Leading article
In the editorial of 23 October (p588) one sentence should have read: “Dr Hassell said that some or all of them might choose to leave the Register (by implication in January because they do not wish to have to undertake continuing professional development and pay a £256
fee).”
Vantage training
Vantage Pharmacy says that its dispensing assistant course is in the process of being accredited by the College of Pharmacy Practice but has not already been accredited as Vantage announced last week
(PJ, 6 Nov, p673).
Opioids website
The OPEN Minds (Opioids and Pain European Network of Minds) website can be accessed at www.openmindsonline.org, not as stated last week (p677).
Mental health booklet
The telephone number for ordering copies of the “Carers and confidentiality in mental health health”booklet
is 020 7235 2351 and not as stated last week (p676). |
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October 2004
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| October 30 |
Catherine Hale
Catherine Hale, co-author of last week’s Agenda for 2004 article
(p600) is a lecturer in medical law and ethics at the University of Birmingham
and not a senior research fellow at King’s College London as stated.
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| October 9 |
Nicola Gray
Nicola Gray works at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham,
not the department of pharmacy at the University of Manchester, as stated
(PJ, 2 October, p491).
CPD therapeutic drug monitoring article
In our CPD article (PDF 150K) “Why do therapeutic drug monitoring” (PJ,
31 July, p153), three values should have been expressed in micromoles
and not millimoles. The following should have read: “until concentrations
are below 0.05µmol/L” (p155, column 2, section on anticancer
drugs), “the normal target range of 10–20mg/L (55–110µmol/L)” (p155,
column 3, section on theophylline) and “reducing the target range
to 5–15mg/L (28–80µmol/L)” (p155, column 3, section
on theophylline).
Council report
In last week’s report of Royal Pharmaceutical Society Council business,
the word “eight” in the fourth bullet-pointed paragraph in
the panel on p498 should have read “nine”.
Insomnia reference
The reference for last week’s news story about cognitive behaviour
therapy in chronic sleep onset insomnia is Archives of Internal Medicine (2004;164:1888), and not as stated (p456). |
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September 2004
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| September 25 |
Agenda for change
Elizabeth Allcock is clinical governance facilitator at Salford Primary
Care Trust, not as stated (PJ, 11 September p343)
Payment of 2005 fees
We incorrectly stated last week (p400) that the facility for postal payment
of Royal Pharmaceutical Society personal retention fees by credit or debit
card will continue. Postal payment will be by cheque only. Card payments
can only be made online. |
| September 18 |
Richard Barker
The director-general of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
is Richard Barker, not Richard Baker as stated last week (PJ, 11 September,
p336). |
| September 11 |
Dictionary of pharmacovigilance
The price of the ‘Dictionary of pharmacovigilance’ is £65,
not as stated in our book reviews (PJ, 7 August p210 and 4 September p327). |
| September 4 |
Counterfeit Cialis tablets
The batch numbers of counterfeit Cialis (tadalafil) tablets that have been
recalled are A031410 and A041410, not as stated in the news story last
week (p277). Pharmacists should contact their wholesalers directly for
exchange, not Lilly ICOS. |
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August 2004
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| August 28 |
ABPI chief
Trevor Jones’s successor as director-general of the Association of
the British Pharmaceutical Industry will be Richard Barker not Richard
Baker (PJ, 7 August, p178).
David Cowan
In our News feature on 14 August we should have designated David Cowan
as professor not doctor (p214). |
| August 21 |
Byelaw alterations
Under “7. Third Schedule” in last week’s Official Notice
setting out proposed alterations to the Society’s Byelaws (p241),
the heading of the fourth column of the register should have read “Postal
town”. |
| August 14 |
Obituary
The date of death of Herbert George Westlake was 2 July, not 9 June as
published in the recent death notice (PJ, 31 July, p171).
MCQs in pharmacy
practice
The edition of ‘MCQs in pharmacy practice’ reviewed in
The Journal (31 July, p165), was the first edition and not the second
edition as stated.
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| August 7 |
Cetuximab clarification
Premedication with an antihistamine is mandatory before the first infusion of
cetuximab, and is then recommended before all subsequent infusions (PJ, 10 July,
p46). Merck has requested that orders for this product are not placed on the
number for AAH hospital service that was provided to The Journal (ibid, p49)
but that customers contact their local branches.
UniChem award
The photograph on p145 of last week’s Journal featured Richard
Baker, chief executive of Boots The Chemist, and not Steve Hill as The
Journal was informed. |
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July 2004
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| July 24 |
BPC student fee
The student rate fee for the 2004
British Pharmaceutical Conference (PJ, 26 June,
p811) applies to all full-time students and not just to undergraduates. Further
information is available from Esther Corcoran (tel 020 7572 2332,e-mail esther.corcoran@rpsgb.org). |
| July 10 |
MEP new edition
Last week’s news
item about a new edition of ‘Medicines, ethics and
practice: a guide for pharmacists’ (p32) wrongly referred to an out-of-date
Code of Ethics requirement that the current edition should be available in all
dispensaries. |
| July 3 |
Pharmacogenetics research
The main recipient of Government funding for a project to examine whether a person’s
genetic make up influences adverse reactions to azathioprine is the University
of Manchester not Salford Royal Hospital as stated in last week’s PJ (p792).
Also, the test being developed at St James’s University Hospital, Leeds
is for malignant hyperthermia not hypothermia (p792). |
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May 2004
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| May 8 |
UKPPG
UKPPG stands for United Kingdom Psychiatric Pharmacy Group, and not as stated
(PJ, 24 April, p506). |
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April 2004
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| April 10 |
Technicians database
The easiest way for pharmacy technicians and their employers to submit their
contact details to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (PJ, 3 April, p428) is to
visit the pharmacy support
staff section of the website and then access the website data capture form
by clicking
on “pharmacy technicians” followed by “future registration”.
Zevalin
Zevalin (ibritumomab tiuxetan) has been launched by Schering Health Care,
not Schering-Plough as previously stated (PJ, 27 March, p374). |
| April 3 |
Shiv Bagga
The name of Save Our Society
candidate Shiv Bagga was
misspelt in a news item in last
week’s Journal (p369).
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March 2004
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| March 20 |
‘Veterinary pharmacy’
Steven Kayne and Michael
Jepson are the editors of ‘Veterinary pharmacy’ and not the sole
authors, as suggested in a Society news item last week (p333).
Complaints
The e-mail address for complaints about the Royal Pharmaceutical Society,
published in last week’s issue (p318), was incorrect. The correct
address is complaintsaboutsociety@rpsgb.org |
| March 6 |
Roadshow information
The telephone number for information about the primary care roadshows in Manchester
and London is 0118 984 4977, not as The Journal was previously informed
(PJ, 28 February, p259).
Handwritten prescriptions
We have been informed that the results originally presented to The Journal
by the authors of the paper "A survey of prescription errors in general
practice" PDF
(110K) (PJ, 15 December 2001, p860) were incorrect. The results
should have read: "140 errors were found on 140 of the 1,373 handwrittten
items presented during the study period (10.2 per cent) compared with
2,676 errors on 2,527 of the 36,448 computer-generated items (7.34 per
cent) (chi-squared 21.5, df=1, P<0.0001)." |
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February 2004
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| Feb 14 |
Methadone pumps
Methadone pumps have not been issued to pharmacies in the Lothian areas
that regularly dispense large amounts of methadone (PJ, 24 January, p90).
However, the initiative is currently being considered.
CPD picture credit
The picture used in our continuing development article on project management
last week (p156) should have been credited to Jonathan Evans/Getty
Images. |
| Feb 7 |
SOS legal action
The list
of pharmacists bringing legal proceedings against named members of the
Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council (PJ, 31 January, p109), which was supplied to The
Journal by the Save Our Society group, should not have included Maurice Hickey. In addition, the leading
article (ibid, p108) referred to a judicial review being sought when it should have said an injunction.
NPC website
Those without NHSnet access can download the report on repeat
prescribing systems
(PJ, 31 January, p110) from the National Prescribing Centre’s public website (www.npc.co.uk). |
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January 2004
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| Jan 31 |
Management Forum
contact details
The contact telephone number for the Management Forum events on parallel trade
(PJ, 3/10 January, p11) and POM to P switching (PJ, 24 January, p83)
is 01483 570099. The number printed was the company’s fax number.
Christmas
miscellany
In our Christmas miscellany article, Taylor Brawn & Flood: the story of a Bedford
pharmacy (PJ, 20/27 December 2003, p871), the watercolour print was wrongly cropped,
excluding the boy referred to in the text. |
| Jan 24 |
Sandoz ramipril
The prices of Sandoz
ramipril capsules, packs of 28, are as follows and
not as the company previously told The Journal (17 January, p51); 1.25mg £5.28,
2.5mg £7.49, 5mg £10.44, 10mg £14.22.
CPD article
In last week’s continuing
professional development article (PDF 150K), the DDD and ADQ figures in Table 1
(p58) were transposed. |
| Jan 3/10
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Council report
In our most recent Royal Pharmaceutical Society Council report (PJ, 13
December 2003, p819) the word “six” in the second line on p822
should have read “seven”.
Isolation of petaline
There was an error in the article “Drug discovery at the Royal
College” (PJ, 20/27 December 2003, p877). In the penultimate paragraph
it is indicated that a group at Glasgow University had isolated petaline.
In fact, the first separation of petaline chloride from other constituents
in the crude drug was achieved by Peter F. Nelson working in a pharmacognosy
laboratory in the Royal College building. |
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