April 2013
The 5th Annual Defence Medical Services Pharmacy Conference took place
at HMS Collingwood, near Portsmouth, on 11 and 12 October 2012
November 2012
Gill Hawksworth reports from the inaugural Quality Improvement Collaborative (QuIC) interprofessional conference on 10 November in Leeds
November 2012
The Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group held its annual conference
in Liverpool from 9 to 11 October 2012. Peter Mulholland reports
October 2012
Helen Meynell reports from the second annual Clinical Pharmacy Conference in Abu Dhabi
June 2012
Stephen Goundrey-Smith reports from Electronic Medication Management 2012 in Melbourne, Australia
October 2011
The fourth annual Defence Medical Services Pharmacy Conference was held
at Army Medical Service Training Centre, Strensall, near York on 13
& 14 October 2011
October 2011
A report of the debate on complementary alternative
medicine held at the recent British Science Festival; the debate was
organised
by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the University of Bradford and West
Yorkshire Local Practice Forum
June 2011
A one-day Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group symposium held at GSK R&D, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage
May 2011
Claire Callue and Professor Joy Wingfield report back on the Pharmacy Law and Ethics Association (PLEA) annual seminar held on 18 May 2011, at which the role of the GPhC as regulator of the pharmacy profession was discussed.
May 2011
Views aired at an industry round table debate held in Manchester on 7 April 2011.
May 2011
Avicenna conference spells out the future opportunities and threats of GP-led commissioning, reports Ailsa Colquhoun
May 2011
Christine
Clark reports on the highlights from the European Association of Dermatology and Venereology Spring
Symposium, 14-17th April 2011, Carlsbad, Czech Republic
April 2011
This year’s Annual Pharmacy Symposium, organised by the
Department of Pharmacy of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the
University of Malta, was dedicated to the memory of Professor Stephen Hudson from the University of Strathclyde, who passed
away suddenly last November. Professor Lilian M. Azzopardi reports.
March 2011
A one-day workshop, held during March 2011 in association with the RSC Analytical Biosciences Group discussed the current concepts in the qualification and validation of biomarker assays for the measurement of pharmacodynamic responses to drugs and vaccines. Joe Chamberlain reports
March 2011
A one-day symposium held by the Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on Thursday 24 March 2011. Joe Chamberlain reports
February 2011
A one-day symposium held by the Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on Thursday 3 February 2011. Joe Chamberlain reports
December 2010
The second David Webber memorial lecture entitled “Skin: dead or alive” was given by Professor Jonathan Hadgraft at the School of Pharmacy, University of London on 11 November 2010. Kevin Taylor reports
December 2010
The Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group and Pharmaceutical Analytical Sciences Group held this joint one-day
symposium, on novel techniques and applications for investigating
chemical and physical characteristics of active pharmaceutical
ingredients (APIs)
October 2010
The 2010 annual PCCPN conference focused on the major national changes impacting on pharmacists within the NHS in terms of restructuring, financial challenges and the changes to their professional and regulatory body
October 2010
The annual study day of the Cystic Fibrosis Pharmacist Group (CFPG) was held in Newcastle during October 2010. Three key speakers gave presentations that were of interest to pharmacists who provide care to patients with cystic fibrosis at all levels
September 2010
A symposium organised by the Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group at the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences UK PharmSci 2010 Conference, Wednesday 1 September 2010.
The symposium aimed to examine the ways that pharmaceutical products that have the active pharmaceutical ingredient inside inclusions such as micelles, liposomes, niosomes and similar materials may be analysed for the purposes of pharmaceutical development, stability studies and batch release. Joseph Chamberlain reports
That stability of the ingredients and the product must be given consideration in order to supply safe and effective medicines is just one of many issues discussed at a Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group meeting in London (June 2010)
The HIV Pharmacy Association (HIVPA) 2009 annual conference was held at
Jury’s Hotel, Brighton, on 5 and 6 June 2009
The pharmacists’ associations of Kaohsiung, Taipei
County, Taichung City, Hsinchu, Tainan and Taipei City along with the
Pharmacist Associations of ROC, the Department if Health,
GlaxoSmithKline and the School of Pharmacy at the National Taiwan
University organised and sponsored a one day international
conference on community pharmacy services on the 20 September 2009. The
aim was to be learn about, and learn how to participate in,
patient-centred pharmaceutical care and to learn about public health
initiatives
