Mrs Mary Allen, MRPharmS, chairman of the Hospice and Palliative Care Pharmacists Association, has been appointed to the board of management of the Ian Rennie Hospice at Home, a specialist home nursing care team which operates in the Chilterns region of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Dr Derek O'Hagan, MRPharmS, won the Controlled Release Society's 1999 young investigator research achievement award. Dr O'Hagan works for Chiron Corp, Emeryville, California, United States.
Mrs Ruth Rodgers, MRPharmS, has been appointed secretary of the Association of Locum Pharmacy Agencies (ALPhA). She will be responsible for establishing and developing the association's administration and advising on professional standards of pharmacy practice for locum agencies. Mrs Rodgers is a former head of ethics at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Mr Mark Provost, MRPharmS, has joined Provincial Pharmacy Locum Services Ltd as information technology manager. He will be responsible for developing the company's systems for registering details of locum pharmacists and placements and for integrating its telephone and computer system. Mr Provost was formerly technical director at Hadley Hutt Computing Ltd.