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2007

January (PDF 170K)
• What will the creation of the national pharmacy boards mean for the branches and regions?
• Meeting the challenge of CPD for pharmacists
• Branch programmes, January to June 2007
• Profile of a branch: Sunderland
• Interview: Brian Curwain
• New toolkit will help with drafting motions for the BRM
• Help from other branches

August (PDF 90K)
• Branch funding for conference 2007 attendance
• Branches seek careers officers
• Put 2020 on your agendas
• Branch programmes, September to December 2007
• Communicate, communicate, communicate
• Interview: Phillida Entwistle
• Quiz: Famous pharmacists

2006

January (PDF 140K)
· Encouraging future pharmacists
· Get a taste for the BPC
· Hitting the headlines: how to achieve local exposure

August (PDF 140K)
· Branching out into continuing professional development
· Branch programmes, September to December 2006
· Why the branches are valuable
· Council members offer hot topic presentations to inform debate
· Careers display stand offer
· Students' view of BRM and AGM
· Branch welcomes students

2005

January (PDF 150K)
· Future thinking on services provided by the branches
· Branch meetings, January to June 2005
· It can be a risky business running a Society branch

September (PDF 390K)
· Society responds to branches' call for e-mail service
· Building understanding of CPD through the branches
· The future of the branch representatives' meeting

2004

January (PDF 120K)
· What Network News can do for you and your branch
· Local networks, local leadership
· How the Norwich and Norfolk branch was revived

August (PDF 130K)
· The branch, the pizza box and the future of pharmacy
· Healthy headlines: advice for would-be branch PROs

What Network News can do for you and your branch

Twice a year Network News will appear as a pull-out centre section in The Pharmaceutical Journal, carrying details of Society branch and regional meetings in the coming months. As you will see from the diary pages (PDF 55K), it is not comprehensive but is designed to give advance notice of local meetings so that the relevant dates can be put in your diary. The next issue of Network News will be published in late August in time for the autumn programme and then in the penultimate issue of 2004, which will carry listings for the first half of 2005.

Members should be reassured that it will not replace the information that appears in The Journal in the issue immediately before a meeting takes place. Full details of meetings, giving time and venue, etc, will continue to be published. Network News will not, in addition, replace either the mailings that some branches send members or the details that appear on branch websites. However, it is hoped that as Network News becomes established, some branches will decide that it enables them to keep in touch with members without the cost of a branch mailing and it is just as effective a way of communication.

You will see from this first issue that Network News will also carry features. There is an item on the last page about how the fortunes of one branch were revived. Future issues will look at different ways of gaining sponsorship for meetings, what issues have proved to be most popular in different parts of the country and how newly registered pharmacists can be persuaded to attend meetings.

Network News will depend on you. If you have a story to tell, do let The Journal know. If you are a committee member and wish to find out how other branches have tackled a problem, The Journal will try and help. Alternatively, if you would like to write about your own successes, please put pen to paper or finger to key: although Network News will only appear twice a year as a pull-out section, it will be published in the Society section on other occasions when there is sufficient material.

Send your suggestions to Network News c/o The Pharmaceutical Journal, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN. E-mail: network.news@pharmj.org.uk