The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7498 p458
19 April 2008

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Roadshows planned in Scotland to debate future leadership

Roadshows designed to engage pharmacists across Scotland in the debate over the future professional leadership body are being organised by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Scottish Pharmacy Board.

Frank Owens, vice-chairman of the board, said: “I would like to make clear that the Scottish Pharmacy Board is committed to ensuring we do all we humanly can to take the current debate to grass roots practitioners. It is their profession; it’s for them to decide the future. There are some four-and-a-half thousand pharmacists resident in Scotland. We want to take the debate to as many of them as possible.”

Details of the roadshows, which will run in late May and early June 2008, will be published shortly. Mr Owens was speaking at a meeting in Edinburgh last week at which leaders of the profession discussed pharmacy’s future professional body.

A News feature this week also examines what the future structure of the new professional body might be (p465).


Meetings p484