The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7504 p647
31 May 2008

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Society offers award for medicines safety

A new award that recognises significant contributions to improving medicines safety in Britain is to be offered by The Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Speaking at the Society’s annual general meeting on 21 May 2008, the outgoing President, Hemant Patel, said that the Council had given the award the go-ahead earlier in the day. It was an important step towards achieving his ambition, expressed when he was re-elected President in June 2007, that Britain should become the safest place in the world to receive medicines.

Applications for the award would be invited later in the year and the first award would be made in 2009.