The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7480 p631
1 December 2007

Society summary

Timetable of informal half-day presentations by inspectors for preregistration trainees published

Every year, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s professional standards inspectors organise a series of informal half-day presentations for preregistration trainees. Their aim is to explain the inspector’s own role and that of the Society’s Fitness to Practise and Legal Affairs Directorate, so that trainees can gain an understanding of the support available to pharmacists from those sources.

The sessions are open to all trainees, whatever field of practice they are in. Trainees may attend the presentation of their choice. For most sessions there is no need to reserve a place in advance, but reservation will be necessary for the sessions in Leeds and Newcastle.

There is no charge for attending the presentations, although any travel costs will have to be met by the preregistration trainee or his or her employer.

The sessions will be held at venues across Britain, with a choice of dates in London and Birmingham (see Table). This season the presentations will be given at the locations that have proved most popular with preregistration trainees in previous years.

No presentations will be given this year at the former venues of Aberdeen, Blackburn, Chelmsford, Crewe, Maidstone, Nottingham, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Reading, Thornton Heath, Swansea and the Wirral.

Most of this season’s presentations are early in the new year. Details of all the presentations have been mailed to preregistration trainees and tutors.

The mailing includes information on the precise location of each venue, with details of railway stations and bus routes and advice on road travel and parking. For most venues the mailing also gives a telephone number for further information about the site (eg, access for the disabled).

Information about the presentations will also be available from the preregistration trainees page of the Society’s website.

Any queries about the presentations should be addressed in writing to the relevant inspector at the Fitness to Practise and Legal Affairs Directorate.