New look for British Pharmaceutical Conference dinner in 2005
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has announced a revamp for the British
Pharmaceutical Conference dinner in response to feedback from conference participants in 2004.
This year’s dinner, to be held at the Midland Hotel, Manchester,
on Monday 26 September, will include an address by a guest speaker and
will be followed by dancing to a live band.
For those not attending the dinner, a limited number of tickets will
be available for the music and dancing.
The guest speaker will be Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ, who
is now chief executive officer of United Healthcare Europe. (Dr Smith
will also give a keynote address earlier in the day on “New models
of health care, new opportunities for pharmacists”.)
Following the dinner, the music will be provided by Kissing Fish, who
play music in the style of The Commitments (the soul band from the Alan
Parker film of the same name, based on the book by Roddy Doyle). The
band is led by a pharmacist, Stephen Chapman, who is professor of prescribing
studies at Keele University.
The chairman of the Society’s BPC 2005 Conference Committee, Gill
Hawksworth, says: “In recent years we have looked to make the dinner
less formal to attract greater numbers of people. While the numbers of
people have certainly increased, there was a strong feeling at BPC 2004
that the conference dinner needed to be more of a special event. We are
hoping that this year’s dinner and dance evening will have something
for everyone, making it the perfect place to network and importantly
to have fun.”
Tickets for the dinner and dance cost £50 plus VAT. Tickets for
the music and dancing only cost £5 plus VAT. The dress code for
the evening is smart dress.
BPC 2005 is being held at Manchester International Convention Centre,
from Monday September 26 to Wednesday September 28. The conference theme
is “A common vision for health: linking science with practice”.
Booking information and a summary of the programme appear on pp60–61
(PDF 170K). Bookings can be made through the official conference website,
www.bpc2005.org, which also gives the programme in full.
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