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Home > What we do > People and structures > Membership and special interest groups > CPG

The Community Pharmacists Group was formed in 1994 and is open to all community pharmacists and, at the discretion of the group committee, to other pharmacists who have an involvement or interest in community pharmacy.

Contact:

Information and Advisory Service (IAS)
e-mail: ias@rpsgb.org

For more information, click on the links below:

Objectives
Information leaflet
Newsletter
Committee
- Election 2009
Activities

Objectives

- to advance community pharmacy practice
- to promote the application of pharmaceutical knowledge and skills in community pharmacy practice
- to put forward to the Society's Council the views of group members on matters relating to community pharmacy practice
- to advise the Council on all aspects of community pharmacy practice.

Information leaflet

For the CPG information leaflet, click here

The Community Pharmacist newsletter is now being published as a section in our new publication, Your Society. To view the latest edition, click on the link below which will take you directly to Your Society.

Community Pharmacist (p6 of Your Society, October 2008)
Community Pharmacist (p7 of Your Society, July 2008)
Community Pharmacist (p7 of Your Society, March 2008)

Community Pharmacist (November 2007)
Community Pharmacist (September 2007)
Community Pharmacist (May 2007)
Community Pharmacist (November 2006)
Community Pharmacist (July 2006)
Community Pharmacist (March 2006)
Community Pharmacist (November 2005)
Community Pharmacist (July 2005)
Community Pharmacist (March 2005)

Committee

The group is administered by a committee of nine: two members of the Society's Council and seven elected group members. Representatives of the National Pharmaceutical Association, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, the Scottish Pharmaceutical General Council, the Company Chemists Association and the Co-operative Pharmacy Technical Panel are invited to attend committee meetings as participating non-voting observers.

Meetings 2009:
29 January
29 April
29 October

Election 2009

The seven elected places on the group committee fall vacant at the end of May 2009. For information about nomination of candidates, click on the links below:

Community Pharmacists Group committee election 2009
Community Pharmacists Group committee election 2009: Nomination form (removed after closing date)

Voting papers will be sent to members of the group in April, and the closing date for the receipt of voting papers was noon on 22 May 2009.

Activities

In order to improve channels of communication between community pharmacists, the committee has established a network of contacts with the Society's branches, regions and practising community pharmacists to use as a resource for its activities. The group also produces a newsletter four times a year which is distributed to all community pharmacists via The Pharmaceutical Journal. The group organises meetings on matters of interest to community pharmacists; these are accredited with the College of Pharmacy Practice as continuing education contact hours.

The CPG committee meets the Academic Pharmacy Group committee to discuss matters of mutual interest to both groups, such as the role of academia in the future development of community pharmacy. The committee has also held joint meetings with the Hospital, Veterinary and Industrial Pharmacists Group committees. The group is regularly consulted on educational matters such as competences for preregistration training and the national continuing education syllabus for pharmacy.

Community Pharmacists Group