NEWS
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 25 February 2015, Royal Society of Edinburgh: NHS Education for Scotland Pharmacy Conference - Prescription for Excellence and Education
As Prescription for Excellence takes centre stage in Scottish Pharmacy, the NES Pharmacy National Conference offers you the opportunity to explore what this means for your educational development and that of the wider pharmacy workforce.
Presentations will include Developing Independent Prescribing and Clinical Skills; Developing the Pharmacy Workforce; Professional and Clinical Leadership. The deadline for registration is February 4, 2015.
Confirmed Speakers:
• Professor Sir Lewis Ritchie, NHS Grampian/University of Aberdeen and Chair of the Prescription for Excellence Steering Board
• Professor Rose Marie Parr, Director of Pharmacy, NHS Education for Scotland
• Damian Day, Head of Education, GPhC
• Helen Gordon, Chief Executive, Royal Pharmaceutical Society
4 March 2015, Aberdeen: North East LPF Pre-reg event
Please keep an eye out for further details on North East LPF’s forthcoming pre-reg event via virtual network or the RPS events calendar in the next issue.
12 March 2015, 18:15 – 21:05, Edinburgh: Improving Self Care & Management of Chronic Pain This members-only free ‘Breaking Down the Barriers’ joint event with RPS, East of Scotland LPF and Royal College of General Practitioners South East Faculty will be sharing key self management messages, support consistent communication across the professions and better joint working between doctors and pharmacists and focuses on improving the management of people with chronic pain.
To secure your place, please contact: Fiona Peterson, SES Faculty Administrator Email: sesscotland@
rcgp.org.uk Tel: 0203 188 7752
Please keep also an eye out for forthcoming events on the Highland and Western Isles LPF, South West of Scotland LPF and West Central Scotland LPF web pages to be announced early 2015.
22 - SCOTTISH PHARMACIST Honorary degree for Chemist
Dave Allen, Global Chief Chemist with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), has received the honorary Doctor of Science degree in recognition of his pioneering work in drug discovery from the University of Strathclyde.
Professor William Kerr, Associate Deputy Principal (Research and Knowledge Exchange) at the University, presented Mr Allen for the award at a graduation ceremony in Strathclyde’s Barony Hall.
He said, “Dave’s mission and, by association, unstinting vision has focused on the establishment and growth of world-class drug discovery capability, as widely recognised within both the pharmaceutical industry and wider scientific communities.
“As witnessed over many years, Dave has shown outstanding innovation and leadership in the global pharmaceutical arena – and through internationally-leading scientific endeavours in chemistry and biology, resulting in products for the enhancement of health and quality of life.
“Furthermore, he has coupled this with exemplary levels of vision to inspire the development and growth of individual scientists towards the delivery of research excellence.”
Mr Allen, who joined what was then known as Glaxo in the 1980s, currently leads an international team of around 200 scientists and was appointed as GSK’s Global Chief Chemist in 2012. He also holds the post of Senior Vice-President of the Respiratory Therapy Area with GSK.
Can lifestyle changes avoid cancer?
More than four in 10 cancers could be prevented by changes to lifestyle, according to Cancer Research UK experts including Linda Bauld, Professor of Health Policy at the University of Stirling and the charity’s cancer prevention expert.
Smoking remains by far the biggest preventable cause of cancer in the UK, accounting for more than 314,000 cases in the past five years - nearly a fifth of all cancers. According to the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Integrated Household Survey, around one in five adults in Scotland smoke cigarettes, so giving up would be the best New Year resolution smokers could make.
The figures also show a further 145,000 cases in the UK could have been prevented if people had eaten a healthy balanced diet, low in red and
processed meat and salt and high in vegetables, fruit and fibre.
Keeping a healthy weight could have prevented around 88,000 cases in the UK. In Scotland, more than six in 10 adults are overweight or obese, according to the Scottish Government’s 2013 Health Survey.
Cutting down on alcohol, protecting skin in the sun and taking more exercise could also have helped prevent tens of thousands of people in the UK developing cancer in the past five years. Rates of alcohol consumption remain high in Scotland and around one in 10 adults report drinking on at least five days in the past week, according to the ONS’s ‘Drinking Habits Amongst Adults’ survey.
Professor Bauld, who is also Director of the Institute for Social Marketing
Within his respiratory research area, he focuses on the creation of new treatments for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which the World Health Organisation say respectively affect 235 million and 65 million people globally.
University of Stirling’s Professor Linda Bauld
at the University of Stirling, said, “There are more than 200 types of cancer each caused by a complex set of factors - involving both our genes and our lifestyles. There are proven ways to minimise our risk of cancer – like giving up smoking, being more active, drinking less alcohol and maintaining a healthy weight. We must make sure the public and the policy-makers know the evidence behind the benefits of these lifestyle changes is solid.”
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