New direction for Scottish Pharmaceutical Conference
The annual Scottish Pharmaceutical Conference is to take a new direction this year, with a longer programme and a broader range of presentations.
Organised by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Scottish Department,
the conference has in recent years been a one-day event. but the 2004
conference will last one-and-a-half days and will include parallel workshop
sessions, posters and a “hot debate”.
The conference, on the theme “Putting patients first; putting theory
into practice; and celebrating excellence”, will take place on
the weekend of 27 and 28 November at the Old Course Hotel, St Andrews.
It will begin at 10.30am on the Saturday with an opening address by the
chairman of the Scottish Executive, Angela Timoney, followed by addresses
on “Putting patients first” (speaker to be announced) and “Caring
for carers” by Colin Williams (director, Scotland, Princess Royal
Trust for Carers). Most of the afternoon will be given over to a choice
of workshops, on consultant and patient perceptions, clinical psychologist
perceptions and methadone alliance. There will be time during the day
for poster viewing and a one-hour poster session at 4.30pm.
Dinner in the evening will be preceded by a drinks reception and followed
by a ceilidh.
The Sunday morning will see three further workshops — on sexual
health, cancer and supplementary prescribing, and direct supply of medicines — followed
by a debate on the motion “Patients don’t want pharmaceutical
care — they just want their medicines”.
A call for pharmacy practice research posters was distributed with copies
of last week’s Journal sent to Scottish addresses. Abstract submission
forms are to be made available on the Scottish Department website |
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