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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain is committed to the advancement of pharmacy practice and recognises the benefit that both research and the academic pharmacy workforce bring to the profession.

The Society has demonstrated this commitment through investment in commissioned research and in supporting research capacity through its Academic Excellence Awards.

The Society’s future research priorities are detailed in its Research strategy 2007-2011. This focuses on three key themes

patients, medicines and professionalism in pharmacy
patient safety and pharmacy practice
social capital, health inequalities and pharmacy

The strategy builds on earlier programmes of work under the Society’s 2002-2006 strategy which specifically focused on three key policy areas: workforce, education and ethics.

Between 2004 and 2006, the commissioning and management of research has been awarded to the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust in the form of an annual restricted grant, to enable the Society to benefit from the robust research governance arrangements set up by the Trustees and to ensure that the research is, and is seen to be, independent. For recent calls for proposals, click here.

From 2007 onwards the Trust continues to take forward research priorities for the profession supported by the Society through staff resources and overheads. In addition to commissioned research the Trust supports a number of smaller grants to develop research capacity.

For more information, contact:
Research division
Tel: 020 7572 2278
e-mail practiceresearch@rpsgb.org

For an update on the research undertaken under the remit of the strategies please click on the update report below:

Research strategy 2007- 2011: Update on progress

Workforce publications

The Society is currently gathering 2008 census data. For further information click here.

Register analysis

Analysis of the registration information held on members on the register, taken at the same point each year, will provide a useful profile of the membership year on year, and will ensure some degree of continuity in the absence of primary research data. For more information, click here.

Pharmacy education publications

Ethics publications

Publications on ethics is currently available on the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust website. Click on the link below for more information.

Respect for medicines and respect for people: mapping pharmacist practitioners’ perceptions and experiences of ethics and values