On the evening of 24th March (Monday), the RPS Local Practice Forum (LPF) for the region of Notts and Derby was held in the Pharmacy Building A07. The forums are held to provide meetings to support professional development for practising pharmacists, pre-reg pharmacists and students, and to keep members up to date on issues that affect their professional activities.
Abel and Sean with the forum speaker, Professor Joy Wingfield .
Light refreshment was served before the event.
The forum this time focused on the "rebalancing" of medicines legislation and professional regulations. Led by Joy Wingfield, the Honorary Professor of Pharmacy Law and Ethics from our university, we were briefed about the change of medicine law such as those regarding dispensing errors, which are planned to be shifted from statute (criminal) law to professional law. In other words, the plan is to shift the responsibility of dealing with errors by pharmacists from the Department of Health (using the criminal law) to the GPhC (using professional laws).
The forum also discussed about the possibility to further clarify the roles of pharmacists and pharmacist technicians as currently there is no clear-cut as to who takes the blame when something happens. There were also some discussion by practicing pharmacists about the issues of standard operating procedures restricting pharmacists from using their professional discretion to deal with certain situations.
In overall, the forum is a good avenue for students like us to keep ourselves updated with the changes which will affect our careers in the future. We were told that the presentation will be uploaded to Moodle for our reference regarding the things discussed in the forum. Hope to see you for the next local practice forum!
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