Professor Clare Mackie is to resign from the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society after its meeting on December 6 - six months before completing a three-year term of office as a Council member. She says that she wishes to continue her commitment to the profession from a different direction.
Professor Mackie states that she stood for election in 1998 because she felt she could make a contribution to the profession and in particular to take forward issues arising from the Crown review. With implementation of the first Crown report in the form of patient group directions and a Government commitment to implementing the second report, she believes that the groundwork to enable pharmacist prescribing is now complete.
What is now required, she says, is the evidence base to support new models of care, together with education and training to ensure that practitioners are competent to deliver that care. Having been involved in research in this area in recent years, she now intends to focus on contributing to the evidence base and to work with academic colleagues to develop innovative models of teaching and learning at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.