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• Code of Ethics for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
• Consultations: Amendments to Professional standards and guidance for the sale and supply of medicines and Professional standards and guidance for internet pharmacy services: Posting of medicines
• Practice guidance documents
• Legal and Ethical Advisory Service
• Consultation on self selection of Pharmacy medicines

Code of Ethics for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Code of Ethics for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians is available here as a pdf file. Click on the link below:

• Code of Ethics for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians

The Code of Ethics applies to both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. It is based on seven principles and unlike previous codes it does not contain detailed standards or guidance.

Professional standards and guidance documents Seven supporting professional standards and guidance documents have been developed to expand upon the principles of the Code for specific areas of practice or professional activities. For the supporting professional standards and guidance documents, click on the links below:

• Professional standards for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in positions of authority
• Professional standards and guidance for patient consent
• Professional standards and guidance for patient confidentiality
• Professional standards and guidance for the sale and supply of medicines
• Professional standards and guidance for advertising medicines and professional services
• Professional standards and guidance for internet pharmacy services
• Professional standards and guidance for pharmacist prescribers

For questions and answers about the Code of Ethics, click on the link below:

• The revised Code of Ethics for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians: Questions & Answers

Consultations

Amendments to Professional standards and guidance for the sale and supply of medicines and Professional standards and guidance for internet pharmacy services: Posting of medicines

The Society is consulting on proposed changes to two of the seven professional standards and guidance documents that support the Code of Ethics.

Click on the links below for the consultation document and questionnaire:

Consultation document (Posting of medicines)
Questionnaire (pdf format)
Online questionnaire

Views on the proposed changes are invited by 17 October 2008.

Contact:
Priya Sejpal
Head of Professional Ethics
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
1 Lambeth High Street
London SE1 7JN
Tel 020 7572 2481
email priya.sejpal@rpsgb.org

Amendments to Professional standards and guidance for the sale and supply of medicines

The Society has consulted on proposed changes to one of the seven professional standards and guidance documents that support the Code of Ethics.

Click on the links below for the consultation documents:

Consultation document (Pandemic flu)
Consultation document (Deblistering of medicines)

Views on the proposed changes were invited by 20 June 2008.

Practice guidance documents

For practice guidance documents, click here

Legal and Ethical Advisory Service

For fact sheets prepared by the Legal and Ethical Advisory Service, click here

Consultation on self selection of Pharmacy medicines

The Society has conducted a consultation on the way in which Pharmacy medicines are displayed to the public. The outcomes of this consultation are reported below.

For the consultation and outcomes documents, click on the links below :

• Self selection of Pharmacy medicines by the public - A consultation
• Outcomes of the RPSGB consultation on the self-selection of Pharmacy medicines

Contact:
Priya Sejpal
Head of Professional Ethics
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
1 Lambeth High Street
London SE1 7JN
Tel 020 7572 2481
email priya.sejpal@rpsgb.org

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