The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7215 p377
14 September 2002

Society summary

Society's CPD plans to be promoted at conference exhibition stand

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's exhibition stand at this year's British Pharmaceutical Conference is to offer members the opportunity to learn more about the Society's plans for continuing professional development (CPD).

Visitors to the stand will be able to talk to staff from the Society's education division and view demonstration materials, including the website developed for use by the pharmacists taking part in the first stage (PDF 65K) of the CPD roll-out (PJ, 25 May, p723) .

The Society's stand will be manned throughout the conference, which takes place at the Manchester International Convention Centre from Monday 23 to Wednesday 25 September.

A separate exhibition stand will be manned by the Society's practice division. This stand will feature a range of practice topics, including the Society's membership groups. The practice division is also involved in a breakfast session on "Improving access to medicines" on Wednesday 25 September at 7.45am, which will examine the Medicines Control Agency's medicines reclassification project. Janet Flint, practice pharmacist within the practice division, will speak at the BPC on the Society's involvement in the project, leading the work on identifying products and therapeutic categories with potential for reclassification from prescription-only to pharmacy medicine status.

Another conference exhibition stand will feature the Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association, for which the Society provides the secretariat. The stand will be manned by the association's secretary, Professor Tony Moffat, and its president, John Bell (from Australia). The stand will promote the work of CPA and provide information about the association's next conference, which takes place in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, from 13 to 17 August 2003.