SSPPH election The Scottish Specialists in Pharmaceutical Public Health group (formerly the Scottish Chief Administrative Pharmaceutical Officers Group) has re-elected Mr Scott Bryson as chairman and Mr Edward Mallinson as secretary for 2001. In addition, Mr Lyndon Braddick has been elected vice-chairman.
De Montfort university The following pharmacists have been awarded postgraduate certificates or diplomas by the school of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, De Montfort university, Leicester: certificate in clinical pharmacy Muhammad Anwar, Anila Bharadia, Alex Coles, Martyn Drew, Ronald Fiedler, Clare Gow, Marion Gunn, Helen Hurst, Gernot Idinger, Anne Iveson, Barbara Jackson, Bindiya Jagota, Sandhya Kanabar, Birte Koster, Valerie Lam Cham Kee, Grainne O'Mahony, Rashmi Parmar, Bhupendra Patel, Janek Patel, Ketan Patel, Vijay Pujara, Narinda Sharma, Ranjit Singh, Kuldip Singh, Michael Whitelam, Kirsty Williams, Ngan Cheong Wong; certificate in psychiatric therapeutics Brenda Whitehouse; diploma in community clinical pharmacy Colin Adamson, Orla Canning, Susan Chan, Zoe Cathcart, Louise Cray, Helen Crosby, Slakahan Dhadli, Kulvinder Dosanjh, Peter Ellison, Angela England, Sandra Grayer, Suresh Jethwa, Alison Jones, Raj Nutan, Sittal Patel, Susan Rennison, Anil Sharma, Ann Shirley, Alison Simpson, Hira Singh, Suzanne Taylor, Lisa White; diploma in hospital clinical pharmacy Susan Beevers (with distinction).
Oshwal donations The Oshwal Pharmacists group held its 20th annual ball recently. During the evening presentations were made to charities of monies collected during the group's annual charity walk in June. Brace received £4,000 to buy equipment for research into Alzheimer's disease, Get Kids Going received £4,000 to buy sports equipment for disabled children and the Prostate Cancer Charity received £4,000 to buy a polymerase chain reaction machine. A raffle raised £250 for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Benevolent Fund and £500 for the Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association's Pharmaid scheme. Cheques for these were presented to the Society's President (Mrs Christine Glover).