The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 267 No 7179 p895-901
22-29 December 2001

Society News summary

Council agrees to move to mandatory regulation of pharmacy support staff The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is to move towards the mandatory regulation of pharmacy support staff...[more]

Pharmacists to have access to NHS Leadership Centre Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health Hazel Blears has told the Royal Pharmaceutical Society that pharmacists should have access to the National Health Service Leadership Centre to incentivise and support them in leading change. Officials would be following this up with the centre...[more]

Pioneer of pharmaceutical care rounds off special year A year-long programme of celebratory events to mark the 150th anniversary of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's presence in Scotland came to an end on 18 December when Professor C. Douglas Hepler, one of the pioneers of the concept of pharmaceutical care, gave the Scottish Sesquicentenary Lecture at the Society's house in Edinburgh...[more]