Council members to man Society's BPC exhibition stand
Visitors to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society exhibition stand at the British Pharmaceutical Conference next week will have the chance to meet members of the Society's Council and staff during the three days of the conference.
The Society’s stand will provide a range of information and demonstrations
covering continuing professional development, registration, the museum,
the e-PIC database and the online library catalogue. In addition, it
will allow conference participants to gain free internet access.
Also exhibiting at the conference are the Pharmaceutical Press (the Society’s
publications arm) and the Society’s Benevolent Fund, which helps
distressed members of the profession and their dependants.
Running for the duration of the conference, from 15 to 17 September,
the 2003 exhibition will be the BPC’s biggest to date with over
50 stands in the exhibition halls of the Harrogate International Centre.
Other pharmacy bodies exhibiting at the Harrogate conference are the
Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the British Pharmaceutical Students
Association, the College of Pharmacy Practice and the National Pharmaceutical
Association.
A number of government agencies are also exhibiting. They are the National
Prescribing Centre, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency, the Food Standards Agency and the Prescription Pricing Authority.
With the current staff shortages in pharmacy, it is no surprise to see
several recruitment companies exhibiting. They include Quality Locum
Services, which supplies a range of health care professionals to the
public and private sector, Corinth Healthcare, a recruitment company
specialising in health care and social care staff, and SRG, a recruitment
specialist for permanent and contract positions in the pharmaceutical
and other industries
Pharmaceutical companies exhibiting this year include Merck Sharp & Dohme,
which is one of the two major sponsors of the conference this year (the
other being Boots). Other pharmaceutical company exhibitors are AstraZeneca,
Crookes Healthcare, Galderma UK Ltd, Lundbeck, Merck Pharmaceuticals,
Pfizer Global R&D and Phoenix Pharma Ltd (which supplies generic
injectable products to the NHS).
A number of exhibitors are suppliers of specialist services to the pharmaceutical
industry. LGC (the former Laboratory of the Government Chemist), NDA
Analytics, Shimadzu UK and Stable Micro Systems all provide analytical
services. DS Smith Tri-wall supplies transit and protector packaging.
Other suppliers of products and services for the industry are Bede Scientific
Instruments Ltd, Cleveland Metrology and Calibration Centre, CoAcS, Glen
Creston Ltd, LOT-Oriel UK, Meritics, Quintiles and Westfalia Holding.
In addition to the Pharmaceutical Press, exhibitors in the field of publishing
are BMJ Publishing, First Databank, which offers point-of-care electronic
knowledge bases, and Taylor & Francis, which publishes a broad range
of academic books and journals.
Other exhibitors are Cardinal Health (various products and services for
the health care industry), Gap Research Co Ltd (medical and dental equipment
and devices), Healthcare at Home (provider of high technology health
care services to patients in their own homes, such as chemotherapy, intravenous
antibiotics and blood transfusions), MTS Packaging International WTC
(pharmacy automation and robotics), Phoenix Healthcare Distribution (pharmaceutical
wholesaler), PPLS Holdings (insurance and other services for pharmacists),
Resource Partnerships (financial services), Sintek (systems for storage
and handling of pharmaceuticals in pharmacies and hospitals), The Specials
Laboratory Ltd (unlicensed medicinal products manufactured to special
order), Swisslog Tenelift UK Ltd (automated pharmacy systems), System
Solutions Ltd (pharmacy and head office solutions for community pharmacists)
and Tribal Data System (track and trace solutions for prescriptions from
receipt to patient).
Last but not least, one of this year’s exhibitors is Biosurgical
Research Unit, a subdepartment of the Surgical Materials Testing Laboratory,
in Bridgend, Glamorgan, which specialises in breeding maggots for sale
and researching their use in wound care.
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