NHS Education for Scotland

Survey of Scottish pharmacy workforce

A survey will be conducted to gain a better understanding of staff numbers and skill mix within community pharmacy in Scotland.…

RPS director for Scotland: ‘2017 will be a year of opportunity rather than challenge’

Alex MacKinnon, director for the Scotland at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), tells Julia Robinson what 2017 will mean for pharmacists in Scotland and how RPS Scotland plans to embrace new opportunities on behalf of the profession.…

Scottish Pharmacy Board meeting: 18 January 2017

The first Scottish Pharmacy Board (SPB) meeting of 2017 was held on 18 January 2017 at Holyrood House in Edinburgh.…

All GP practices would benefit from pharmacist expertise, say Scotland’s GP and pharmacy membership bodies

All GP practices would benefit from, and patients should have access to, the expertise of a pharmacist, says a joint statement from the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Scotland and Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) Scotland, published on 13 October 2016.…

Working together to serve the interests of pharmacists in Scotland

Ailsa Power, associate postgraduate pharmacy dean at NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and vice chair of the RPS Scottish Pharmacy Board, talks to Julia Robinson about how NES and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society are working together to support Scotland’s 4,500 pharmacists. …

RPS annual review reports 5.4% rise in core membership

The RPS annual review, released on 27 May 2016, outlines the Society’s major milestones and achievements in 2015…

Right medicine, better health, fitter future: a closer look at the RPS Scotland manifesto

RPS Scotland has launched its 2016 manifesto ‘Right medicine – better health – fitter future’ ahead of the upcoming Scottish Parliament elections. Here chair of the RPS Scottish pharmacy board, John McAnaw, talks to Julia Robinson about what the RPS is doing to promote t…

Integration of pharmacists into primary care in Scotland

Elaine Thomson, member of the RPS Scottish Pharmacy Board, draws on her knowledge of the primary care sector to provide clarity as to how pharmacists will integrate into primary care teams across Scotland.…

How do we ensure pharmacists have the skills they need for their expanding role?

We asked several prominent academics and a student organisation what skills and abilities they thought pharmacists would need in the future and how education and training needed to change to deliver that.…

RPS Scotland targets greater clinical role for pharmacy in 2015

Business plan for 2015 sets out Royal Pharmaceutical Society Scotland’s ambitions for the Prescription for Excellence programme…