UK pharmaceutical public health specialist register on the cards
A UK-wide voluntary register for specialists in pharmaceutical public health could be created next year. This is one of the options being considered by a new project funded by the UK departments of health.
Specialists who are competent in 10 key areas of public health practice
can already register with the UK Voluntary Specialist Register. Following
its success, registration for specialists in eight specific areas of
public health is now being considered. Project funding has been granted
to develop assessment and accreditation frameworks for each of these
eight areas.
Pharmacy is one of the defined areas. The pharmacy project lead is Roger
Walker who is a consultant in pharmaceutical public health at the National
Public Health Service for Wales and a director of Pharmacy
HealthLink. Further information about the project is available on PharmacyHealthLink’s
website (www.pharmacyhealthlink.org.uk) and pharmacists who wish to become
involved in the consultation should
contact Professor Walker by e-mail (roger.walker@nphs.wales.nhs.uk).
The project work will begin this autumn and results are not expected
until the middle of next year. The other seven specialist areas being
examined are academic public health, environmental public health, health
promotion, public health nutrition, health intelligence, health psychology
and health protection. |
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