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The Hospital Pharmacists Group is open to all pharmacists working in the National Health Service, private or armed forces hospitals and employed by, or acting as consultants to, health authorities, health boards or health trusts. Other pharmacists may also be eligible. Hospital pharmacy refers to the practice of pharmacy in secondary care and in those areas which interface between primary and secondary care.

Contact details

Meghna Joshi
Tel: 020 7572 2407
Fax: 020 7572 2501
e-mail: valerie.green@rpsgb.org

For more information, click on the links below:

Core activities
Information leaflet
- HPG guidance
- - Revised Duthie Report:
Safe and secure handling of medicines: A team approach
- - Medicines management during patient admission
- - Moving patients, moving medicines, moving safely
- HPG recommendations
- - Retention of pharmacy records
Newsletter
Committee

Core activities

to put forward to the Society's Council the group's views on policies for development through the policy support unit
to put forward to relevant Council committees the group's views on implementing policy
to advise the Council on aspects of hospital pharmacy and developments in health care affecting hospital pharmacists
to provide members with information about service developments and examples of good practice
to safeguard the pharmaceutical care of patients by promoting the development and adoption of appropriate standards of hospital pharmacy practice by the Society
to promote pharmaceutical skills and knowledge within the hospital service

Information leaflet

For the HPG information leaflet, click here

HPG guidance

Revised Duthie Report:
Safe and secure handling of medicines: A team approach

A revision of the 1988 Duthie Report on the safe and secure handling of medicines was produced in March 2005 by a multidisciplinary group led by the Hospital Pharmacists Group.

For the revised report, click here

For the bodies and individuals involved, click on the links below:
Safe and secure handling of medicines: A team approach
Circulation list and list of respondents

Print copies of the report are available free of charge to hospital pharmacists. Contact:

e-mail practice@rspgb.org

Medicines management during patient admission

Guidance on medicines management during patient admission to hospital wards was produced by the Hospital Pharmacists Group in September 2003.

Click on the link below:
Medicines management during patient admission to the ward

Moving patients, moving medicines, moving safely

Guidance on discharge and transfer planning was produced in February 2006.

Click on the link below for the guidance and a workbook:
Moving patients, moving medicines, moving safely: discharge and transfer planning

HPG recommendations

Retention of pharmacy records

Recommendations for the retention of pharmacy records, approved by the Hospital Pharmacists Group, have now been updated and were published in the July/August 2008 issue of Hospital Pharmacist.

Click on the link below:
Recommendations for the retention of pharmacy records

The Hospital Pharmacist newsletter is now being published as a section in our new publication, Your Society. To view the latest edition, click on the link below which will take you directly to Your Society.

Hospital Pharmacist (May 2008)
(p7 of Your Society, May 2008)

Hospital Pharmacist (September 2007)
Hospital Pharmacist (March 2007)
Hospital Pharmacist (October 2006)
Hospital Pharmacist (March 2006)

Committee

The group is administered by a committee of 11: two members of the Society's Council and nine elected group members (seven from England, one from Scotland and one from Wales).

Hospital Pharmacists Group