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This section provides information on pharmacy careers, pharmacy education policy, undergraduate education including links to schools of pharmacy, preregistration training, the roles of pharmacy support staff, and working in other countries.
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This section covers the Society's information resources including the press office, library, advisory services, and museum; it also gives quick links to downloadable documents published by the Society.
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This section provides information on the wider world of pharmacy, covering: current developments in pharmacy, the use of medicines, science, practice research, working with other UK and international bodies, events and meetings.
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The information pharmacists can help answer scientific and technical questions from members from any branch of pharmacy about most aspects of their day-to-day work or for special projects being undertaken, including continuing education. The aim is to provide a rapid and normally instantaneous reply wherever possible.

The subject scope includes:

advice on the usage and availability of proprietary and other medicinal products
adverse drug reactions and interactions
pharmacy practice
clinical and health care products
therapeutics
UK tablet identification
the identification of medicines from overseas
pharmaceutics.

For more information on the Information Pharmacists, click here

Contact details:

Information Centre
Tel: 020 7572 2302
Fax: 020 7572 2499
e-mail: infopharm@rpsgb.org

Opening hours:

Monday - Wednesday, and Friday: 9am to 5pm
Thursday: 10am to 5.00pm

The Information Pharmacists maintains and publishes the RPS e-PIC database on pharmacy practice which is used for enquiries and for literature searches. It also has access to the full range of medical databases, books and journals held in the Information Centre.

For a leaflet on the Pharmaceutics Information Service, click here

For further information see Putting pharmaceutics into practice (The Pharmaceutical journal, 2 August 2003)

For articles published in The Pharmaceutical Journal on the work of the Information Centre, click on the links below:

Identification of foreign medicines
Medicines requiring storage at low temperature in the pharmacy