PJ, 8/15 August 2015, Vol 295, No 7874/5

John Alfred Goulding dies

On 2 July 2015, John Alfred Goulding, aged 86, of Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. Mr Goulding was a former business services manager at the National Pharmaceutical Association, where he worked for 26 years. He retired in 1992.…

Tribute to John Regan

Jack Regan — although his baptismal name was John he was always known as Jack — died after a short illness on 22 April 2015 at the age of 84. Jack registered as a pharmacist in 1955 and retired in 2006. He studied pharmacy at Liverpool School of Pharmacy and worked at St Helen’s Hos…

Manufacturing medicines in the aseptics unit

Ensuring that medicines are manufactured to the highest quality is a major part of a pharmacy production manager’s role.…

RPS to press ministers over “deeply frustrating” breakdown of minor ailment service talks

Society “disappointed” over failure of negotiations to introduce national scheme.…

Wednesday 2 September: West Yorkshire

Local practice forum event, ‘Inhaler technique learning event’, in partnership with the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education. Holiday Inn, Coal Pitt Lane, Clifton, Brighouse, West Yorkshire HD6 4HW. Event 7:30–9pm. Now fully booked. For further details, contact …

Election of RPS president and treasurer

Ash Soni has been re-elected as president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) at a meeting of the RPS Assembly on 21 July 2015. Soni, a community pharmacist, is the clinical network lead for Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group and a member of the English Pharmacy Board. Sid Da…

Sheila Helen Paterson dies

On 30 July 2015, Sheila Helen Paterson MRPharmS, aged 74, of Rothes, Aberlour, Banffshire. Mrs Paterson registered with the Society in 1965. She was a founder and first chair of the Scottish Borders branch of the Society and chair of the Aberdeen and North Eastern Scottish branch. Mrs Paterson serve…

Tribute to Geoffrey Stafford Knowles

I was sorry to read, in The Pharmaceutical Journal (2015;294:710), of the death of Geoffrey Stafford Knowles. I first met Geoffrey at the Ins titute of Pharmacy Management conference at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, in the autumn of 1981 when he invited my wife and I to join him and Jean to accompany t…

Drug manufacturers delay reporting serious adverse events

Almost one in ten serious and unexpected drug events is not reported to the US Food and Drug Administration within the required timeframe.…

Sir Gordon Hobday (1916–2015)

Research chemist Sir Gordon Hobday was instrumental in the development of the anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen and had a long career at Boots before becoming chairman.…