OBE Award for Dr Morrow
Former Chief Pharmaceutical Officer Dr Norman Morrow has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List.
Dr Norman Morrow was the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for Northern Ireland for 17 years until 2013 and was awarded the OBE for services to the pharmaceutical profession in Northern Ireland.
He is now a member of the board of the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority, and strategy development officer for the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association.
Dr Morrow said, "I am delighted and very proud to receive this award. It confirms that the contribution that
pharmacists can make is highly valued." He hopes that all his colleagues would see the award as a recognition of their importance.
“Many pharmacists are unsung heroes in their own communities," he added. Former Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for Scotland, Professor Bill Scott, was also recognised.
Zameer Choudrey, Chief Executive of the Bestway Group, owner of Well Pharmacy, was made a CBE for services to the UK wholesale industry and charity in the UK and abroad.
Mr Choudrey joined Bestway in 1984 as financial controller, and was appointed to the role of Chief Executive for Bestway Group in 2004.
Dr Norman Morrow, former Chief
Pharmaceutical Officer
Pharmacists support NSD 2016
Local pharmacists and health professionals attended a No Smoking Day briefing at the Dunsilly Hotel in Antrim recently for an update on issues surrounding smoking. No Smoking Day (NSD) will be on March 9, 2016, with the theme Be Proud to be a Quitter.
Among those who attended were, l eft to right, James Griffiths, Healthcare Development Manager, Johnson and Johnson, Wendy Savage, Senior Network Sales Specialist Smoking Cessation, Pfizer, Elizabeth Stevenson, Cloughmills Pharmacy, Naomi Thompson, Senior Cancer Prevention Officer, Cancer Focus NI, and Judith West, Chair NSD NI Co- ordinating Group.
No Smoking Day in Northern Ireland is jointly organised by Cancer Focus Northern Ireland, British Heart Foundation and the Public Health Agency. For more information on how health professionals can get involved with and support No Smoking Day visit
www.nosmokingday.org.uk For advice or support to help you stop
James Griffiths, Healthcare Development Manager, Johnson and Johnson, Wendy Savage, Senior Network Sales Specialist Smoking Cessation, Pfizer, Naomi Thompson, Senior Cancer Prevention Officer, Cancer Focus NI, and Judith West, Chair NSD NI Coordinating Group
smoking contact your GP, local pharmacy, Cancer Focus NI on
028 9066 3281 or visit
www.want2stop.info
Pharmacy Forum Recruitment
The Pharmacy Forum NI still have two places left as part of the exciting opportunity for Pharmacists at the beginning of their career to learn valuable skills by becoming a voluntary member of one of their committees.
You will have the opportunity to develop skills such as communication, negotiation, strategic planning and
policy making, which will enhance your employability as well as contributing to shaping the future of the profession.
Recent volunteer Thomas Hughes recently commented, “Volunteering to become a member of the Pharmacy Forum Board has given me great awareness of the challenges which face Pharmacy locally and nationally
and also the direction in which Pharmacy is moving in Northern Ireland. It has been most interesting and is completely different to the day to day operations of being a Pharmacist.”
For more information please visit
http://forum.psni.org.uk/whats- happening/get-involved/
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