New school of pharmacy proposed at Keele University
Keele University is to open a school of pharmacy next year, subject to accreditation by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Steve Chapman, currently professor of prescribing studies and head of
Keele University’s department of medicines management, has been
appointed head of the proposed school. Mark Brennan, a law and ethics
specialist, currently working with Aston University, will be director
of undergraduate studies.
If the school is approved, it will take 40 students in September 2006,
and 80 students per year thereafter. According to Professor Chapman there
is a need for the school locally. “Local employers are finding
it difficult to recruit and retain pharmacists,” he explained.
He adds that students at Keele have historically undertaken secondary
and further education locally.
The school will draw on the experience of its medicines management department,
which Professor Chapman says already has a large network within the health
service. The course will have a patient-centred focus and will include
teaching on prescribing, a large component of problem-based learning
and an active placement policy. |
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