In 1999, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain introduced a public affairs strategy to promote greater awareness of its policy aims among key opinion formers.
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Charles Willis Head of Public AffairsThe Society works closely with government departments to ensure that the voice of the profession is heard on major issues. Members of the Council and the Society's staff represent the profession on key policy and advisory committees of the UK government, EC committees and other national and international organisations.
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has embarked upon a campaign to win a change in the law to stop the unfair criminalisation of single dispensing errors.
Key members of staff are engaged with senior figures in Westminster and Whitehall, putting the case for pharmacists and pointing out the possible consequences for those who make a single dispensing error.
The RPSGB wants to use its greatest strength - its members - to create a campaign that has a real impact upon the decision-making process and supplements the lobbying activity already being carried out. An Early Day Motion (EDM) - a Parliamentary petition - has been tabled by an MP on the RPSGB's behalf. The wording of EDM Number 1561 calls for the Government to amend the law that dictates such harsh treatment for pharmacists and replace it with a more proportionate responseThe EDM is available for all constituency MPs to sign and the RPSGB is asking all members to use a draft letter, downloadable from this website, to urge their MP to sign the EDM.
For a message from the RPSGB President to members, click here
For the draft letter to MPs, click here
The All-Party Pharmacy Group in Parliament was established in 1999 in order "to raise awareness of the profession of pharmacy and promote pharmacy's current and potential contribution to the health of the nation". The Chairman of the Group is Howard Stoate MP. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, the National Pharmacy Association, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and the Company Chemists Association provide financial support to the group. Luther Pendragon provides the secretariat function for the group.
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In June 2006 the All-Party Pharmacy Group set up an inquiry into the future of pharmacy. The group's report was published in June 2007. For the Society's response to the inquiry, the APPG report, and the Society's response to the report, click on the links below:
In April 2007 the Society submitted written evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on proposals to restrict the availability of medicines containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. For the Society's evidence, click on the link below:
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For the Society's Parliamentary briefing on the proposals, click hereFor Parliamentary briefings produced by the Society, click on the links below: