HPG calls for better communication
Ideas on how to communicate more effectively with its members are being sought by the committee of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Hospital Pharmacists' Group (HPG). The committee also wants to encourage members
to become more involved in the group’s work, including advising them
on issues they would like to see addressed, and standing for election to
the committee. Ideas should be e-mailed to liz.griffiths@rpsgb.org
The call is part of a promotional campaign by the HPG committee to raise
awareness of the role that the groups’ committee plays in helping
to shape hospital pharmacy practice and influencing the wider political
environment in which hospital pharmacists practice.
Activities carried out by the HPG include assisting the Society in formulating
its response to the Government’s Agenda for change process
and developing updated guidance on the safe and secure handling of medicines
(“Duthie”), which is due to be published later this year. Good
practice guidelines on medicines management, which aim to reduce the risk
of drug errors during patient admission and discharge from hospital, have
also been produced. [See
p72–73 for an article based on these guidelines (PDF 110K)].
Liz Griffiths, secretary to the HPG committee, stressed that all pharmacists
working in the hospital environment are entitled to belong to the HPG and
are encouraged to do so. HPG committee members are elected by the members
of the HPG group. Three vacancies arise on the HPG committee each year,
and group members will be invited to submit their nominations in March.
More information about the committee members and the work of the committee
is available on the HPG webpage (available through the Society’s
website at www.rpsgb.org). |
Hospital Pharmacist