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Acknowledgements
The Joint
Formulary Committee is grateful
to indivi-
duals and organisations that have provided advice and
information to the BNF.
The principal contributors for this edition were:
I.H. Ahmed-Jushuf,
K.W. Ah-See,
M.N. Badminton,
P.R.J. Barnes,
D.N. Bateman,
S.L. Bloom,
R.J. Buckley,
I.F. Burgess,
D.J. Burn,
S.M. Creighton,
C.E. Dearden,
D.W. Denning,
R. Dinwiddie,
P. Dugue,
P.N. Durrington,
D.A.C.
Elliman,
P. Emery,
M.D.
Feher,
B.G. Gazzard,
A.M. Geretti,
A.H. Ghodse,
N.J.L. Gittoes,
P.J. Goadsby,
P.W. Golightly,
B.G. Higgins,
S.H.D. Jackson,
A. Jones,
D.M. Keeling,
J.R. Kirwan,
P.G. Kopelman,
T.H. Lee,
A. Lekkas,
D.N.J. Lockwood,
A.M. Lovering, M.G. Lucas,
L. Luzzatto,
A.G. Marson,
P.D. Mason,
D.A. McArthur,
K.E.L. McColl,
G.M. Mead,
L.M. Melvin,
E. Miller,
R.M. Mirakian,
T. Murray,
S.M.S. Nasser,
C. Nelson-
Piercy,
J.M. Neuberger,
D.J. Nutt,
L.P. Ormerod,
R. Patel,
W.J. Penny,
A.B. Provan,
M.M. Ramsay,
A.S.C Rice, D.J. Rowbotham,
J.W. Sander,
J.A.T. Sandoe,
M. Schacter,
G.J. Shortland,
J. Soar,
S.C.E. Sporton,
S. Stephens,
A.M. Szarewski,
J.P. Thompson,
R.P. Walt,
D.A. Warrell,
J. Watkins,
A.D. Weeks,
A. Wilcock,
C.E. Willoughby,
A.P.R. Wilson, M.M. Yaqoob.
Expert
advice on the management
of
oral
and dental
conditions
was
kindly
provided
by
M. Addy,
P. Coulthard,
A. Crighton,
M.A.O. Lewis,
J.G. Meechan,
N.D. Robb,
R.A. Seymour,
R. Welbury,
and J.M. Zakr-
zewska.
S. Kaur
provided valuable advice on dental
prescribing policy.
Members of
the British Association of
Dermatologists’
Therapy
& Guidelines
Subcommittee,
D.A. Buckley,
L.C. Fuller,
J. Hughes,
S.E. Hulley,
J. Lear,
A.J. McDo-
nagh,
J. McLelland,
N. Morar,
I. Nasr,
S. Punjabi,
M.J. Tidman,
S.E. Haveron
(Secretariat),
and
M.F. Mohd Mustapa (Secretariat)
have provided valu-
able advice.
Members of
the Advisory Committee on Malaria Pre-
vention,
R.H. Behrens,
P.L. Chiodini,
F. Genasi,
L. Good-
yer,
A. Green,
D. Hill,
G. Kassianos,
D.G. Lalloo,
G. Pas-
vol,
S. Patel,
M. Powell,
D.V. Shingadia,
C.J.M. Whitty,
M. Blaze (Secretariat),
and V. Smith (Secretariat)
have
provided valuable advice.
Members of the UK Ophthalmic Pharmacy Group have
also provided valuable advice.
The Joint
British Societies’
Coronary Risk Prediction
Charts have been reproduced with the kind permission
of P.N. Durrington who has also provided the BNF with
access to the computer program for assessing coronary
and stroke risk.
R. Suvarna and colleagues at the MHRA have provided
valuable assistance.
Correspondents in the pharmaceutical
industry have
provided information on new products and commented
on products in the BNF.
NHS Prescription Services has
supplied the prices of products in the BNF.
Numerous doctors, pharmacists, nurses and others have
sent comments and suggestions.
The BNF has valuable access to the
Martindale
data
banks by courtesy of S. Sweetman and staff.
J.E. Macintyre and staff
provided valuable technical
assistance.
C. Adetola,
N. Bansal,
H.M.N. Brady,
J.J. Coleman,
S. Foad, E.H. Glover, T. Hamp, A. Holmes, J. Humphreys,
J.M. James,
E. Laughton,
J. Reynolds, R.G. Taljaard, and
E.J. Tong provided considerable assistance during the
production of this edition of the BNF.
Xpage have provided assistance with typesetting devel-
opment and related production processes.
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