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Dr Rose Marie Parr photographed at the Scottish Pharmacist Awards
DR ROSE MARIE PARR WINS RPS CHARTER AWARD
Dr Rose Marie Parr, a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), has been presented with the RPS Charter Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the profession.
Dr Parr became Scotland’s Chief Pharmaceutical Officer in 2015 and, during her five years in office, she launched 'Achieving Excellence in Pharmaceutical Care': a strategy document to position pharmacy as an integral and enhanced part of a modern NHS in Scotland.
‘Thank you to the RPS for bestowing on me this most prestigious Charter Award,’ Dr Parr said on receiving the award. ‘It is a great honour and most humbling to see the outstanding work of our Fellows, both new and old, contributing hugely to the profession. Pharmacy is a fantastic career. The future of pharmacy is bright and will flourish as we continue to deliver pharmaceutical care to the people we serve in our communities.’
COVID-19 VACCINATION STATUS SCHEME LAUNCHES
While there are no countries currently requiring vaccination status to travel, international travel restrictions can change quickly, requiring such measures to be in place.
Now, a service that allows people travelling abroad to access their record of vaccination status themselves has launched.
A vaccination status letter can be downloaded from the NHS Inform patient portal or - for those not online - requested in the post via a Freephone COVID Status Helpline.
As Scotland’s vaccination programme progresses, vaccination status will be replaced by digital COVID Status Certificates, which will include vaccination and testing data to be used for outbound international travel.
REFORMING SCOTTISH PHARMACY EDUCATION
Scottish pharmacy bodies have unveiled a five-year timeline to modernise pharmacy education, boosting the number of Independent Prescribers (IPs) and helping to deliver on strategic ambitions for pharmacy in Scotland.
The plan, which sets out timings for the introduction of the new Foundation Training Year, introduction of new General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) standards, and the eventual graduation of the first new IPs in 2026, has been co-created by Scotland’s Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, NHS Education for Scotland (NES), the University of Strathclyde and Robert Gordon University, Directors of Pharmacy, Community Pharmacy Scotland, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the GPhC.
‘Pharmacy services, across all sectors, have developed significantly over recent years to meet increasingly complex health and social care needs as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team,’ said Professor Anne Watson, Postgraduate Pharmacy Dean at NES.
‘We have a co-created plan to deliver an ambitious five-year plan of educational reforms in Scotland. It will greatly enhance the number of active pharmacist independent prescribers and will ensure that the strategic plans for all pharmacy services can be realised.’
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