NEWS
MAJOR NATIONAL MEETING FOR RESPIRATORY MEDICINES OPTIMISATION
The partnership between the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Associations (UKCPA) and Pharmacy Management (PM) was formed in 2015 and this year has delivered 2 successful meetings on Diabetes Medicines Optimisation.
The partnership now moves on to deliver a major conference on Respiratory Medicines Optimisation in Birmingham on Wednesday 1 February 2017.
The specialist Respiratory Group of the UKCPA has recommended and delivered 16 Satellite Sessions which refl ect developments in both Primary and Secondary Care for Respiratory Medicines Optimisation.
Top class speakers from around the UK will be presenting and the conference is available at no cost to NHS personnel.
All Satellite Sessions are now listed on the Pharmacy Management website and can be viewed at
www.pharman.co.uk/ events/2017/2/mo-birmingham
Registration for this new and topical event is now open.
Instructions on how to book at place: Register on the PM website as a user at
www.pharman.co.uk (which will take a couple of minutes). Then click on the events tab, go to the England section and fi nd the event which is entitled ‘JoMO-UKCPA National Respiratory Medicine Workshop’ with a start date of 1 February 2017 at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham. Once in this event, you can then register to attend.
For all enquiries, please contact Katie Fraser (Senior Executive Assistant, Pharmacy Management) at
katie.fraser@
pharman.co.uk or on 01747 829501.
4 - SCOTTISH PHARMACIST RGU STUDENT AWARDED TOP PHARMACY PRIZE
the establishment of the RGU Professional Bodies Group.
She has chaired debates on ethical issues and recently led a consultation with her peers on the professional standards of the General Pharmaceutical Council. Her efforts have given students a platform to discuss and debate legislation, while helping them access peer support.
Lara Seymour
A Robert Gordon University (RGU) student has been named Student of the Year by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
Lara Seymour, a fourth-year pharmacy student originally from Cumbernauld, Glasgow, recently received the award at the RPS 2016 Awards in Birmingham.
The RPS Awards programme celebrates and acknowledges the achievements of individuals and teams within the pharmacy profession. The nine awards encompass all pharmacy sectors and career stages, from Student of the Year through to
the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The RPS Student of the Year Award was established to recognise a student who stands out through their commitment and engagement with their university, whether this is through participation on staff and student liaison committees, or having an initiative which has benefi tted their fellow students.
Lara was nominated for her proactive work to support her colleagues and leading her fellow students in professional involvement. She established a Pharmacy Law and Ethics group (PLE) and also led
‘I am absolutely thrilled to have won ‘Student of the Year’ at this year’s RPS Awards,’ Laura said. ‘It was a huge honour to even have been nominated and shortlisted for the award. The ceremony in Birmingham was fantastic and it was really inspiring to hear about the achievements of other individuals and teams who had also been nominated for an award.’
This is not the fi rst time Lara has been awarded for her efforts. Earlier this year, she was named ‘Pharmacist of the Future’ at the annual Scottish Pharmacist Awards. student who stands out through their commitment and engagement with their university, whether this is through participation on staff and student liaison committees, or having an initiative which has benefi tted their fellow students.
WORRYING RESULTS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
According to a study co-led by researchers from the University of Arizona and UCLA, your birth year predicts - to a certain extent - how likely you are to get seriously ill or die in an outbreak of an animal- origin infl uenza virus, Until now, it was believed that previous exposure to a fl u virus conferred little or no immunological protection against new infl uenza viruses that can jump from animals into humans. The results, published in Science on November 11, could hold important clues for public health measures aimed at curbing the risks of a major fl u outbreak.
The research team studied two avian-origin infl uenza A (‘bird fl u’) viruses, H5N1 and H7N9, each of which already has caused hundreds of spillover cases of severe illness or death in humans. Both strains are of global concern because they might at some point gain mutations that allow them not only to readily jump from
birds into humans, but also spread rapidly between human hosts.
Analysing data from every known case of severe illness or death from infl uenza caused by these two strains, the researchers discovered that whichever human infl uenza strain a person happened to be exposed to during his or her fi rst infection with fl u virus as a child determines which novel, avian-origin fl u strains they would be protected against in a future infection. This effect of ‘immunological imprinting’ appears to be exclusively dependent
on the very fi rst exposure to fl u virus encountered in life - and diffi cult to reverse.
‘Even a comparatively weak, mild pandemic fl u event like the 2009 H1N1 (swine fl u) outbreak is a trillion-dollar affair,’ said Michael Worobey, head of the UA’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and one of the two senior authors of the study. ‘A major pandemic like the one we saw in 1918 has the potential to kill large numbers of people and shut down the world’s economy.’
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