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	The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 270 No 7233 p130-132 25 January 2003	This article Reprint Photocopy
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Meetings & Conferences

American Society of Health-system Pharmacists

More than 17,000 delegates attended the 37th ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, from December 8 to 12 2002. There was a strong focus on safe systems for medicines management, including the use of bar-coding and automated dispensing, both in the conference programme and in the exhibition. Laurence Goldberg and Christine Clark report

Laurence Goldberg is a consultant pharmacist from Bury, Lancashire, and Christine Clark is a medical writer and consultant pharmacist, from Rossendale, Lancashire

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