NEWS PHARMACY STUDENT ELECTED
TO NATIONAL EXECUTIVE A pharmacy student at Robert Gordon University (RGU) has spoken of her honour at being appointed to a key role in a national pharmaceutical body.
Mara Gilchrist, a third-year student at the School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences has been elected as Education Development Officer on the British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (BPSA) Executive.
Mara has represented the organisation over the past year as its Northern Area Coordinator, arranging two conferences and leading a team of representatives across four universities – RGU, Durham University, the University of Sunderland and the University of Strathclyde. She will take up her new role as part of the National Executive in July, following an election that took place at the BPSA Annual Conference in Durham last month.
NEW STANDARDS FOR PHARMACY
PROFESSIONALS All pharmacy professionals in Great Britain now have to meet new standards for pharmacy professionals, which came into effect last month. The nine standards describe how safe and effective care is delivered through person-centred professionalism, and replace the standards of conduct, ethics and performance.
The GPhC has written to all pharmacy professionals in Great Britain to ask them to reflect on how to apply the standards in their practice. The GPhC has also written to all superintendent pharmacists, and asked them to discuss with those who own and govern their pharmacies how they will fulfil their shared responsibility to create an environment in which pharmacy professionals working in their pharmacies are able to meet these standards.
Mara (back row on far right) with fellow BPSA Executive members
Key themes emphasised in the standards include: person-centred care; demonstrating leadership; and
greater accountability on the part of pharmacy professionals.
‘All pharmacy professionals,’ said Duncan Rudkin, chief executive and registrar for the GPhC, ‘should now consider how to embed the standards in their practice, and should apply the standards whenever they are making professional judgements. We hope the standards will also act as a springboard for discussions about professionalism and person-centred care across pharmacy.’
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