The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7274 p659
8 November 2003

Society summary

President welcomes new Scots pharmacists to the register

The President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Dr Gill Hawksworth, told 10 newly qualified Scots pharmacists that with entry to the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists they had assumed important responsibilities relating to patients' welfare and maintaining the highest standards of practice.

Speaking at the Society’s House in York Place, Edinburgh, on 29 October, Dr Hawksworth said that Scotland had been leading the rest of the United Kingdom in health care delivery for some time and there were many opportunities for the pharmacists to use their newly acquired skills. However it is vital that they realise that, as modern medicine progresses, keeping up to date through continuing professional development would assume an even greater significance.

Dr Hawksworth thanked the pharmacists’ relatives and friends in the audience for their encouragement and support during the challenging course.

David Thomson, Chairman of the Society’s Scottish Executive, congratulated the pharmacists on behalf of colleagues in Scotland. He said that there were many exciting developments coming on stream across the country in the near future, including supplementary prescribing and the direct supply of medicines. This was a good time to enter the profession and he assured the pharmacists that they had made the right choice of career.