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Network News is produced by The Pharmaceutical
Journal as a service to members of the Society resident
in Great Britain.
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Twice a year Network
News will appear as a pull-out centre section in The Pharmaceutical
Journal,
carrying details of Society branch and
regional meetings in the coming months. As you will see from the diary
pages (PDF 55K), it is not comprehensive but is designed to give advance
notice of local meetings so that the relevant dates can be put in your
diary. The next issue of Network News will be published in late August
in time for the autumn programme and then in the penultimate issue
of 2004, which will carry listings for the first half of 2005.
Members should be reassured that it will not replace the information
that appears in The Journal in the issue immediately before a meeting
takes place. Full details of meetings, giving time and venue, etc, will
continue to be published. Network News will not, in addition, replace
either the mailings that some branches send members or the details that
appear on branch websites. However, it is hoped that as Network News becomes established, some branches will decide that it enables them to
keep in touch with members without the cost of a branch mailing and it
is just as effective a way of communication.
You will see from this first issue that Network News will also carry
features. There is an item on the last page about how the fortunes
of one branch were revived. Future issues will look at different ways of
gaining sponsorship for meetings, what issues have proved to be most
popular in different parts of the country and how newly registered pharmacists
can be persuaded to attend meetings.
Network News will depend on you. If you have a story to tell, do let
The Journal know. If you are a committee member and wish to find out
how other branches have tackled a problem, The Journal will try and help.
Alternatively, if you would like to write about your own successes, please
put pen to paper or finger to key: although Network News will only appear
twice a year as a pull-out section, it will be published in the Society
section on other occasions when there is sufficient material.
Send your suggestions to Network News c/o The Pharmaceutical
Journal,
1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN. E-mail: network.news@pharmj.org.uk
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