Welcome to making a difference! Here you will find charitable requests, other requests, drug donations, resources and much more.
Feel free to get in touch with your requests for sponsorship and suggestions.
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Current fundraising requests
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Medical donations for Haiti appeal
Pain killers, antibiotics and bandages are in urgent demand to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake, according to International Health Partners that provides donated medicines to areas of most need around the world
London marathon 2010
Mary Boucher, prescribing advisor for NHS Wandsworth, is running in the London marathon and raising money for the Deafblind charity ‘Sense’. Donations via the Money giving website.
Initiatives
The WHO UNESCO FIP Pharmacy Education Taskforce aims to catalyse actions to develop pharmacy education around the world.
Lloydspharmacy donates computers for use in African schools, universities and libraries (November 2009)
Requests
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URGENT: Prejomin (Milupa) |
Diabetes research (26 November 2009)
People who use insulin injections or pumps are invited to take part in a survey which aims to discover attitudes to diabetes and how sufferers handle their illness
HPV vaccine research (14 November 2009)
Community pharmacists are invited to give their views on the safety of the HPV vaccine in the prevention of cervical cancer by completing a short questionnaire that forms part of a Bath University undergraduate research project
Pharmacist prescribing (5 September 2009)
Pharmacist prescribers working in community and primary care in Great Britain are invited to take part in a study to investigate patients’ views and experiences of pharmacist prescribing.
Drug donations
International Health Partners (PJ, 11 July 2009, p49)
Drug donations cause health and economic problems (PJ, 7 January 2006, p4)
Royal Pharmaceutical Society guidance (PDF 134K) on drug export
World Health Organization guidelines for medicines donations
Intercare collects medicines for Africa (see also letter)
Letters in The Pharmaceutical Journal:
- Communication is essential (22 January 2005, p86)
- Not a dumping ground (1/8 January 2005, p12)
- Let us get it right (15 January 2005, p54)
Resources
Global fund to fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
Department for International Development
MERLIN (Medical Emergency Relief International)
Pan American Health Organization - disasters and humanitarian assistance
World Health Organization - essential drugs and medicines policy
Other
Humanitarian assistance: who should provide it and what does it involve? (PDF 60K)
Recycling Appeal - would like to receive any old mobile phones or printer cartridges
Charity work in Africa - developing a dispensary in rural Tanzania
Past fundraising requests
Pakistan appeal
Leila Taheri, news writer for The Pharmaceutical Journal climbed Mount Kilimanjaro (16–25 October 2009) to raise money for Friends of The Citizens Foundation. Donations via the Just Giving website.
NSPCC
Roy Henstock, community pharmacist from Huddersfield ran two half marathons (20 and 27 September 2009) for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Donations via the Just Giving website.
Great Ormond Street Hospital
John D’Arcy, commercial director of Rowlands Pharmacy cycled from London to Paris (5–7 September 2009) to raise money for Great Ormond St Childrens’ Hospital Trust. Donations by cheque, payable to GOSH, sent for the attention of John D’Arcy to: Rowland & Co, Rivington Road, Whitehouse Industrial Estate, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 3DJ.
Locum pharmacist Lia Curren ran the Adidas Women's 5K Challenge in London's Hyde Park on 6 September 2009. Donations can be made via her Just Giving website.
The Stroke Association
Pharmacist Anil Gandecha climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in August 2009 in aid of The Stroke Association. Donations via the Just Giving website.
