NEWS
BESTWAY GROUP DELIVERS MEDICINES TO PAKISTAN
Over 20 tonnes of vital medicines donated by the Bestway Group have left the United Kingdom, heading for Pakistan, where they will be distributed to victims of the recent flooding disaster and resulting humanitarian disaster.
‘Our teams are on the ground in Pakistan,’ says Haider Choudrey, Chief Financial Officer of Bestway Group, ‘and are seeing first-hand how desperately these medicines are needed to help combat disease that has taken hold where fresh water supplies have been destroyed and families have lost their homes along with everything they own.
‘We would like to thank the team at Virgin Atlantic Cargo, who have helped us make this happen and are transporting what is a sizeable cargo of medicines out to where it is needed the most.’
Bestway’s Haider Choudrey (right) and Virgin Atlantic Cargo’s Ben Crump.
RPS DIRECTOR FOR SCOTLAND TAKES ON NEW ROLE
After over two years as Royal Pharmaceutical Society Director (RPS) for Scotland, Clare Morrison will be leaving RPS in January to return to NHS Scotland after being appointed Director of Community Engagement at Healthcare Improvement Scotland.
‘It has been an honour to work for RPS over the past two years,’ Clare said. ‘Our team in Scotland has done some fantastic work in that time, in particular our Pharmacy 2030 professional vision, which we developed with many pharmacy groups right across Scotland and co- published with the National Pharmacy Technician Group Scotland. Our work on creating a national multi-professional movement on environmentally sustainable prescribing was another highlight.
‘I have always had a real sense of purpose to improve services for patients, so I am delighted to be given this opportunity to work for Healthcare Improvement Scotland to be more focused on improving health and care for people. However, I remain proud to be an RPS Fellow and will continue to support the work of RPS.’
NEW NAME FOR MONKEYPOX DISEASE?
Following a series of consultations with global experts, the World Health Organisation (WHO) will begin using a new preferred term ‘mpox’ as a synonym for monkeypox. Both names will be used simultaneously for one year while ‘monkeypox’ is phased out.
When the outbreak of monkeypox expanded earlier this year, racist and stigmatising language online, in other settings and in some communities was observed and reported to WHO. As a result, a number of individuals and countries raised concerns and asked WHO to propose a way forward to change the name.
Considerations for the recommendations included rationale, scientific appropriateness, extent of current usage, pronounceability, usability in different languages, absence of geographical or zoological references, and the ease of retrieval of historical scientific information.
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