The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7373 p542
29 October 2005

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Law and ethics work wins £25,000 in further funding

APPLET, the consortium set up to advance the provision of pharmacy law and ethics teaching, has won further funding of £25,000 from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to continue its work for another year. This follows an initial award of £250,000 for a three-year project, which ended in September.

The new funding will allow the project team to procure new resources in 2006. In addition, two residential courses for teachers are planned for next year. The APPLET team is, however, looking further into the future. Options include the establishment of a centre for pharmacy law and ethics. At a meeting at the Royal Society of Medicine this week, Joy Wingfield, professor of pharmacy law and ethics at Nottingham University, said: “We will have to work in 2006 on how the project will continue.”

An article detailing the APPLET team’s three-year project appears on pp549–50.