The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7468 p271
8 September 2007

Society summary

Technical information service changes name

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s technical information service has been relaunched as “Information pharmacists” and will no longer be termed the technical information service.

Information pharmacists offer an information and advisory service to members on all aspects of pharmacy including medicines information (excluding legal and ethical aspects which are dealt with by the Legal and Ethical Advisory Service). Examples of common enquiries include:

• Identification of medicines obtained from outside the UK

• Drug interactions, for example, with herbal products

• Identification of tablets or capsules from markings

• Stability of mixtures

• Recent POM to P switches

Details on the Society’s advisory services

Information pharmacists are also able to help members source and evaluate resources for research and to support continuing professional development.

Information pharmacists can be contacted on 0207 572 2302 from 9am–5pm Monday to Wednesday, 10am–5pm Thursday and 9am–5pm Friday, or via infopharm@rpsgb.org