Hospital Pharmacist
2006;13:149
May 2006

News summary

New role for hospital pharmacist

Practising hospital pharmacist V’Iain Fenton-May, a senior quality assurance pharmacist based at the pharmaceutical unit in St Mary's Hospital, Cardiff, has been appointed vice-chair of the British Pharmacopoeia and is the UK nomination to the European Pharmacopoeia Commission.

Mr Fenton-May, a fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, is also responsible for the quality of pharmaceuticals including medical gases used within hospitals in Wales.

He also performs some of the functions of the Medicines Inspectorate in hospitals on behalf of the Welsh Office and audits suppliers of pharmaceuticals to hospitals in Wales.