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UCA-NI PHARMACY CONFERENCE 2020


The UCA-NI 2020 Conference is rescheduled for Sunday 29 March and we want you there! It was my bright idea to hold the conference on Saturday 1 February 2020 when you all had as many reasons to stay away as a French aristocrat invited to attend the guillotine, writes Terry Maguire.


There was no locum cover - they are as rare as wildlife in South Australia – and, in any case, why can’t locums come too? For those fortunate not to work Saturdays, there was that precious protected family time, plus there was the fact that attending a gala awards evening requires painted nails, back- combed hair and accurately-applied lippy and so sufficient time required between the conference and the awards - which it wasn’t. It’s certainly more complex than a few squirts of Lynx locally defined as ‘male grooming’, but then the alpha males in the profession were all off to Dublin for the start of the Six Nations.


Seriously though, for every pharmacist who could attend, two couldn’t…


So now the conference is taking place on Sunday 29 March.


YOU THERE!


The UCA-NI Board believes we have a valuable, informative and worthwhile conference, so if you can go, you should go. You will be better informed. You will be more comfortable dealing with day to day issues. You will get a chance to ask the experts and take part in the discussion. And you’ll meet up with colleagues.


For pharmacists, it’s free due to the generosity of the sponsors.


Regulation of every industry - especially pharmacy - is increasing year on year and will continue to do so. It is there to protect the public and that is always a good thing. Pharmacy regulation, because of the business we are in, is more complex than most and it’s often difficult to really be clear when faced with an uncertain real-life situation as to whether you are, or are not, doing the right thing.


I sat on the Statutory Committee for nearly 20 years and none of those who appeared before us ever, in their wildest dreams, believed they would be there defending their professional integrity. More recently, I provided professional expert reports on


behalf of pharmacists, who were facing regulatory action and - again - I find a system that is itself sometimes unclear.


A pharmacist who, due to a momentary lapse of concentration caused a patient’s death; a pharmacist who complied with the law and did not supply an Epipen, challenged on his professional ethics; a pharmacist supervising a pre-registration student, who extemporaneously compounded a medicine that resulted in the death of a child.


These are - of course - the extremes, but they are the defining cases of a regulatory framework that, while it works increasingly for the patient, must not work against the pharmacist.


This conference is a chance to get a much needed update on key issues affecting regulation of the work you do, the responsibilities you have and the censure you might face.


We want you to be there. You need to be there.


WE WANT


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