The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7403 p664
3 June 2006

Society summary

AGM adopts change to Code

The Society's annual general meeting has adopted the only change made to the Code of Ethics and Standards since the 2005 AGM.

The change was the addition of a new service specification for pharmacist prescribers, which was approved by the Council at its meeting in August 2005 (PJ, 13 August 2005, p201). Its introduction recognises the growth of supplementary prescribing by pharmacists, the proposals for independent prescribing and the repercussions of the Shipman Inquiry.

The President, Hemant Patel, said that the Council had decided that each year at the AGM it would we will report changes to the Code of Ethics made in the previous year. He moved the adoption of the change, which was agreed.