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  This section provides information on the wider world of pharmacy, covering: current developments in pharmacy, the use of medicines, science, practice research, working with other UK and international bodies, events and meetings.

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  This section provides information on the setting up of a new professional body for pharmacy, alongside a new regulatory body, as part of a fundamental modernisation of the pharmacy profession

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A

Annual review

• Annual review 2006

Audit

• Audit templates
• Model standards for self audit in community pharmacy in England
• Ready to go audits

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Briefing papers

• Pharmacy in England White Paper – Market reforms (April 2008)
• Control of entry system for NHS Pharmaceutical Services in England 2006 (January 2007)
• Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services (February 2006)
• The NHS Improvement Plan 2004 (July 2004)
• Supplementary prescribing by pharmacists (January 2004)
• Better management of minor ailments: using the pharmacist (June 2003)
• Office of Fair Trading report on community pharmacy (February 2003)
• Realising the potential of pharmacists (May 2002)
• The expert patient (October 2001)
• Public Inquiry into Children's Heart Surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1984-1995 (August 2001)
• NHS LIFT: The Government proposals for modernising primary care premises, including pharmacies (August 2001)
• Generic medicines (August 2001)

Briefings (Parliamentary)

• Parliamentary briefings

Business plan

• Business plan 2007

Byelaws

• Byelaws

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Census

see Research

Charter

• Royal Charter

Clinical governance

• Clinical governance reports
• Community pharmacy clinical governance assessment

Code of Ethics

see Ethics

Complaints procedures

• Complaints against pharmacists and owners of pharmacies
• Complaints about the Society

Consultation documents

• RPSGB responses to external consultation documents

Continuing professional development (CPD)

• RPSGB consultation document on mandatory continuing professional development

Controlled Drugs

see Controlled Drugs

Council

• Meetings: agenda, papers, minutes and transcripts
• Council Governance Handbook

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Data Protection

• Privacy policy

Devolution/ National pharmacy boards

• Devolution/National pharmacy boards

Disciplinary Committee

• Current and recent inquiries

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e-mails

• e-mail contact policy

Education

• Certificates of attendance at educational meetings

Ethics

• Code of Ethics for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians

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Factsheets

see Information Pharmacists

see Legal and Ethical Advisory Service

see Library

see Museum

see Science

Financial accounts

• Financial accounts 2006

Freedom of Information

• RPSGB Freedom of Information publication scheme

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Guidance documents

• Amorolfine nail lacquer (May 2006)
• Best practice guidance for commissioners and providers of pharmaceutical services for drug users (February 2006)
• Blood pressure monitoring: managing hypertension (updated April 2008)
• Bowel cancer (May 2007)
• Care of people with diabetes (updated November 2004)
• Care of people with mental health problems (under development)
• Changes in the management of CDs affecting pharmacy - England, Scotland and Wales (updated May 2007)
• Child protection (revised August 2007)
• Chloramphenicol eye drops (June 2005)
• Cholesterol testing (updated July 2005)
• Clinical governance framework for pharmacist prescribers and organisations commissioning or participating in pharmacist prescribing
• Collection and delivery services from central points (August 2006)
• Counterfeit medicines (May 2006)
• Developing and implementing standard operating procedures for dispensing (updated November 2007)
• Emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) as a pharmacy medicine (updated September 2004; + see press statement for updated advice on advance provision)
• Epilepsy (May 2008)
• Good practice in the treatment of coughs and colds in children (March 2008)
• Handling of medicines in social care (replaces Administration and control of medicines in care homes and children's services)
• Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005: Interim guidance for community pharmacists (updated December 2005)
• Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005: Interim guidance for hospital pharmacists (July 2005)
• Helping smokers to stop: advice for pharmacists in England (joint guidance - August 2005)
• Identifying and remedying pharmacist poor performance
• Maintaining running balances of Controlled Drug stock (May 2005)
• Medication administration record (MAR) charts (currently being revised)
• Medicines management during patient admission to the ward (September 2003)
• Moving patients, moving medicines, moving safely: Discharge and transfer planning (guidance) (February 2006)
• Moving patients, moving medicines, moving safely: Discharge and transfer planning (workbook) (February 2006)
• National resources available to support the community pharmacy contract (England and Wales) (revised November 2006)
• NHS Code of Practice on Confidentiality (October 2005)
• Obesity (updated July 2005)
• Omeprazole (revised May 2004)
• Pharmacy services for clinical trials (June 2005)
• Practice based commissioning: a resource for community pharmacists in England
• Practice based commissioning: a resource for primary care pharmacists in England
• Pregnancy testing in the pharmacy
• Protection of vulnerable adults (August 2007)
• Pseudoephedrine and Ephedrine (April 2008)
• Raising concerns (updated August 2007)
• Recording interventions (April 2006)
• Resource tools for community pharmacists
• Safe and secure handling of medicines (Revised Duthie report)
• Sale and supply of veterinary medicines (May 2007)
• Self care challenge - A strategy for pharmacists in England (March 2006)
• Self care challenge - A strategy for pharmacists in England (Appendices) (March 2006)
• Self care challenge - A strategy for pharmacists in England (Resources) (March 2006)
• Service continuity planning for community pharmacists (updated June 2006)
• Service continuity planning for community pharmacists, template (updated June 2006)
• Service continuity planning for pandemic flu. England
• Simvastatin (July 2004)
• Simvastatin (concise version, July 2004)
• Standards checklist for registered pharmacy premises
• Stop smoking support services: Role of pharmacy
• Stop smoking support services: Knowledge and resource tools
• Substances of misuse (updated February 2008)
• Sumatriptan (June 2006)
• Update on 1997 Report of the working party on the prevention of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C and sexually transmitted diseases (February 2008)
• Visits to pharmacies in England by external monitoring bodies
• Visits to pharmacies in Wales by external monitoring bodies
• Working with the pharmaceutical industry (updated January 2003)

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Health Committee

• Current and recent inquiries

Health policy reviews

• 32 (February to April 2008)
• 31 (November 2007 to January 2008)
• 30 (August to October 2007)
• 29 (May to July 2007)
• 28 (February to April 2007)


• 27 (November 2006 to January 2007)
• 26 (August to October 2006)
• 25 (May to July 2006)
• 24 (February to April 2006)


• 23 (November 2005 to January 2006)
• 22 (August to October 2005)
• 21 (May to July 2005)
• 20 (February to April 2005)


• 19 (November 2004 to January 2005)
• 18 (August to October 2004)
• 17 (May to July 2004)
• 16 (February to April 2004)


• 15 (November 2003 to January 2004)
• 14 (August to October 2003)
• 13 (May to July 2003)
• 12 (February to April 2003)


• 11 (November 2002 to January 2003)
• 10 (August to October 2002)
• 9 (May to July 2002)
• 8 (February to April 2002)


• 7 (November 2001 to January 2002)
• 6 (August to October 2001)
• 5 (May to July 2001)
• 4 (February to April 2001)


• 3 (November 2000 to January 2001)
• 2 (August to October 2000)
• 1 (May to July 2000)

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Information centre bulletin

• June 2008
• May 2008
• April 2008
• March 2008
• February 2008
• December 2007/January 2008

• November 2007
• October 2007
• August/September 2007
• July 2007
• June 2007
• May 2007
• April 2007
• March 2007
• February 2007
• December 2006/January 2007

• November 2006
• October 2006
• August/September 2006
• July 2006
• June 2006
• May 2006
• April 2006
• March 2006
• February 2006
• December 2005/January 2006


• November 2005
• October 2005
• September 2005
• July/August 2005
• June 2005
• April/May 2005
• February/March 2005
• December 2004/January 2005


• November 2004
• October 2004
• September 2004
• August 2004
• July 2004
• June 2004
• May 2004
• April 2004
• February/March 2004
• December 2003/January 2004


• November 2003
• October 2003
• August 2003/September 2003
• July 2003
• June 2003
• May 2003
• April 2003
• March 2003
• February 2003
• December 2002/January 2003


• November 2002
• October 2002
• September 2002
• July/August 2002
• June 2002
• May 2002
• April 2002
• March 2002
• February 2002
• December 2001/January 2002

Interim Orders

• Current and recent interim orders made by the Disciplinary Committee or the Health Committee

Information Pharmacists

• Factsheets

Investigating Committee

• Current and recent inquiries

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Legal and Ethical Advisory Service

• Law and Ethics Bulletins
• Factsheets

Library

• Factsheets

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Medicines, Ethics and Practice: A guide for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians

Number 32 (July 2008):

• Section 1.1: Introduction
• Section 1.2: Medicines for human use (a)
• Section 1.2: Medicines for human use (b)
  
• Section 1.3: Alphabetical list of medicines for human use (click here for search)
• Section 1.4: Non-medicinal poisons
• Section 1.5: Alphabetical list of non-medicinal poisons
• Section 1.6: Chemicals
• Section 1.7: Denatured alcohol
• Section 1.8: Medicines for veterinary use
• Section 1.9: Alphabetical list of medicines for veterinary use
• Section 2: Code of Ethics for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians (click here)
• Section 3.1.1: Clinical governance (click here)
• Section 3.1.2: Continuing professional development (click here)
• Section 3.1.3: Pharmacy support staff (click here)
• Section 3.1.4: Pharmacist prescribing (click here)
• Section 3.2: Practice guidance documents (click here)
• Section 3.3: Law and ethics fact sheets (click here)
• Section 4.1 Council Members (click here); English Pharmacy Board (click here); Scottish Pharmacy Board (click here); Welsh Pharmacy Board (click here)
• Section 4.2 Support for pharmacists (click here)
• Section 4.3 Headquarters telephone enquiries guide (click here)

Museum

• Factsheets: Guidance for museums
• Factsheets: History of the Society
• Factsheets: Objects in the history of pharmacy

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National pharmacy boards

• National pharmacy boards

New Technologies Forum

• New Technologies forum

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Patient group directions

see Legal and Ethical Advisory Service: Fact sheet 7

Pharmaceutical care of detainees in police custody

• Pharmaceutical care of detainees in police custody

Pharmacist prescribing

• Pharmacist independent and supplementary prescribing
• Prescribing courses, application for accreditation

Pharmacy Now

see English Pharmacy Board (newsletter)

Pharmacy support staff

• Definitions

Pharmacy technicians

• Registration: general information
• Registration application pack: applicants with UK qualifications
• Registration application pack: EEA nationals with EEA qualifications and/or professional experience
• Registration application pack: non-EEA nationals with international qualifications

Dispensing/pharmacy assistants

• Minimum competence requirements

Medicines counter assistants

• Training requirements: Background to policy
• Training requirements: Accredited courses

Policy

Reports and submissions

Alcohol misuse services

• Community pharmacy and alcohol misuse services (June 2008)

Assisted suicide and euthanasia

• Pharmacy and assisted suicide and euthanasia: International experience (July 2007)
  see also: Pharmacy involvement where assisted suicide and euthanasia are permitted (The Pharmaceutical Journal, 18 November 2006)
  see also: Pharmacy and assisted suicide: what can be learnt from experience abroad? (The Pharmaceutical Journal, 25 November 2006)

Competencies of the future pharmacy workforce

Future roles and competence requirements for pharmacists working in the pharmaceutical industry, higher education and private healthcare

• Full report
• Full appendices
• Section 1: Introduction and summary of findings
• Section 2: Methodology
• Section 3: Policy reviews
• Section 4: Case studies
• Section 5: Expert commentaries
• Section 6: Overall conclusions
• Appendix A: Policy review documents
• Appendix B: Case study summaries

NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework

• Guidance on linking the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework and competences for pharmacy

Phase 2 report

• Full report
• Full appendices
• Introductory pages
• Section 1: Background and summary
• Section 2: Profile of demographic, occupational and educational characteristics of the 150 questionnaire respondents
• Section 3: Competency questionnaire findings
• Section 4: Full case studies and mini case studies
• Section 5: Conclusions and recommendations
• Glossary
• Appendix 1: Demographic questionnaire
• Appendix 2: Competency framework questionnaire
• Appendix 3: Full case studies
• Appendix 4: Mini case studies

Report on results of Phase 1 consultation

• Summary report
• Full report
• Section 1: Overview and summary
• Section 2: List of consultation questions
• Section 3: List of respondents
• Section 4: Detailed summary of responses
• Section 5: Other competency or standards frameworks

Phase 1 consultation documents

• Full report
• Section 1: Overview and summary; Consultation questions
• Consultation questions (Word file)
• Section 2: Scope of the review of policy documents
• Section 3: List of documents included
• Section 4: Analysis of policy documents
• Section 5: New draft competency framework
• Section 6: Mapping of current pharmacy education and training frameworks to new competency framework
• Section 7: Mapping of new competency framework to source documents
• Section 8: Competency frameworks for other professions
• Section 9: Original project brief

Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription medicines

• Council position statement
• Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines: a review of international policy and evidence (Executive summary)
• - Report
• - Supplement: Recent developments
• - First quarterly update (January to March 2002)
• - Second quarterly update (April to June 2002)
• - Third quarterly update (July to September 2002)
• - Fourth quarterly update (October to December 2002)

Expert patient

• Perspectives on the expert patient (Full report)
• - 1. A commentary (Mike Bury)
• - 2. Are we missing out on expert patients? (Lynn Faulds Wood)
• - 3. The patient pharmacist (Nigel Simmons)
• - 4. The Australian Sharing Health Care Program - education for clinicians and consumers (Malcolm Battersby)
• - 5. The patient experience - how can it be changed? (Robert Hallworth)
• - 6. Can expert patients be created? (F Roy Jones)

Long-term conditions: integrating community pharmacy

• Long-term conditions: integrating community pharmacy (Executive summary) (1.8MB)
• - Report 1
• - Report 2
• - Report 3

Pharmacists and the new intermediate care agenda

• Pharmacists and the new Intermediate Care agenda (+ amendments)
• Covering letter
• Covering letter for pharmacists
• Evaluation form

Prescription charges

• Prescription charges - should they be abolished

Professional regulation

• Call for ideas - Review of non-medical professional regulation
• Call for ideas - Clinical performance and medical regulation: Chief Medical Officer's review

Securing good health for the whole population

• Securing good health for the whole population: the 'Wanless 2' review

Support structures for pharmacy

• Scoping the profession project: Final report

Practice guidance

see Guidance documents

Preregistration training

Registration examination

• Syllabus and regulations
• Sample papers
• Procedure and results
• Question writing form

Trainees

• Trainee workbook
• Trainee portfolio
• Introduction to community pharmacy
• Introduction to hospital pharmacy
• Preregistration Bulletins
• Inspectors' talks
• Performance standards

Tutors

• Tutor workbook
• Preregistration recruitment guidelines
• Preregistration training sites, guidelines

Prescribing

see Pharmacist prescribing

Press releases

• RPSGB press releases

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Qualified person

• QP Application procedures and guidelines
• 2005 symposium speaker presentations

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Registration

• Annotation to the Register as a independent prescriber
• Annotation to the Register as a supplementary prescriber
• Change of registration status
• Change of registration status (pharmacy technicians)
• Letter of good standing
• Loss of certificate, statutory declaration
• Nomination of superintendent pharmacist
• Registration of new pharmacy premises
• Restoration to the Register
• Restoration to the Register (pharmacy technicians)
• Retention fee direct debit form (pharmacists)
• Retention fee direct debit form (pharmacy technicians)
• Retention fee direct debit form (premises)
• Transfer of ownership of registered pharmacy premises

see also Registration

Registration Appeals Committee

• Information about the Registration Appeals Committee

Regulations

• Regulations

Research

Reports: Workforce modelling

• Pharmacy academics workforce strategy (Executive report)
• Future pharmacy workforce requirements; Workforce modelling and policy recommendations (Executive report)
• Future pharmacy workforce requirements; Workforce modelling and policy recommendations (Technical summary)

Reports: RPSGB Research Strategy

• RPSGB Register analysis 2007
• Healthcare professional education and training: How does pharmacy in Great Britain compare? (2006)
• Pharmacy workforce census 2005: Main findings (August 2006)
• Pharmacy workforce census 2003: Main findings (July 2004)
• Making pharmacy education fit for the future (Executive summary)(January 2004)
• Making pharmacy education fit for the future (Full report) (January 2004)
• Making pharmacy education fit for the future (Appendices to Full report) (January 2004)
• RPSGB Register analysis 2004
• Understanding Innovation in Community Pharmacy - Final report (November 2003)
• Pharmacy workforce census results (February 2003)
• Developing pharmacy values: stimulating the debate (May 2000)

Reports: Community Pharmacy Research Consortium

• Evolution and Change in Community Pharmacy (Synopsis report) (December 2003)
• Care at the chemist: a question of access. A feasibility study comparing community pharmacy and general practice management of minor ailments (Executive summary) (March 2001)
• Care at the chemist: a question of access. A feasibility study comparing community pharmacy and general practice management of minor ailments (Full report, ch1+2) (March 2001)
• Care at the chemist: a question of access. A feasibility study comparing community pharmacy and general practice management of minor ailments (Full report, ch3-7) (March 2001)
• Care at the chemist: a question of access. A feasibility study comparing community pharmacy and general practice management of minor ailments (Appendix) (March 2001)
• The Public's use of community pharmacies as a primary health care resource. A report for the Community Pharmacy Research Consortium. (Executive Summary) (January 1999)

Other research reports

• Exploring the use of New Information Technologies in Community Pharmacy. (December 1999) (Strategic summary)
• Medicines, Pharmacy and the NHS: Getting it right for patients and prescribers. Setting the Clinical Effectiveness agenda for pharmacy (GRIPP report). (July 1999) (Summary Paper)

Simulated patient study (RPSGB/NPA)

• Outline call for proposal for simulated patient project (2006)

Royal Charter

see Charter

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Science

Reports to the House of Lords

• Complementary and alternative medicine (+ Appendices)
• Cannabis
• Resistance to antimicrobial agents

Working party reports

• UK drug delivery research: the way forward in the new millennium (2001)
• Appendices 1 + 2
• Appendix 4
• Appendices 5 + 6
• Progress report on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's working party on drug delivery

Scientist in the High Street campaign: factsheets

• Adverse drug reaction reporting by pharmacists
• Antibiotics
• Aromatherapy
• Homoeopathy
• Herbal products
• Herb-medicine interactions: St John's wort (Hypericum perforatum)
• Medicines for children
• Pharmacogenomics
• Therapeutic and nutritional supplements

Shipman Inquiry

see Controlled Drugs

Staff

• Employment policies
• Code of conduct, Guidance on declaration of interests and Guidance on receipt of gifts and hospitality for employee

Statutory Committee

• Current and recent inquiries

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Your Society

• Your Society

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