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In 1999, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain introduced a public affairs strategy to promote greater awareness of its policy aims among key opinion formers.

For more information please click on the links below:

Parliamentary activity
- Party conferences 2007
- All-Party Pharmacy Group
- All Party Parliamentary Groups: Primary Care and Public Health and Drugs Misuse
- Parliamentary briefings

Contact details:

Charles Willis

Head of Public Affairs
Tel 020 7572 2670
e-mail: charles.willis@rpsgb.org

Party conferences 2007

The Society will be promoting key pharmacy messages at the forthcoming Liberal Democrats, Labour and Conservative party conferences using a new publication, Pharmacy the new healthcare solution. Click on the link below:

Pharmacy the new healthcare solution

Parliamentary activity

The Society works closely with government departments to ensure that the voice of the profession is heard on major issues. Members of the Council and the Society's staff represent the profession on key policy and advisory committees of the UK government, EC committees and other national and international organisations.

All-Party Pharmacy Group

The All-Party Pharmacy Group in Parliament was established in 1999 in order "to raise awareness of the profession of pharmacy and promote pharmacy's current and potential contribution to the health of the nation". The Chairman of the Group is Howard Stoate MP. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, the National Pharmacy Association, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and the Company Chemists Association provide financial support to the group. Luther Pendragon provides the secretariat function for the group.

For more information about the group click here

Future of pharmacy

In June 2006 the All-Party Pharmacy Group set up an inquiry into the future of pharmacy. The group's report was published in June 2007. For the Society's response to the inquiry, the APPG report, and the Society's response to the report, click on the links below:

All Party Parliamentary Groups: Primary Care and Public Health and Drugs Misuse

Medicines containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine

In April 2007 the Society submitted written evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on proposals to restrict the availability of medicines containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. For the Society's evidence, click on the link below:

All Party Parliamentary Groups. Written evidence on proposals to restrict the availability of medicines containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine

For the proposals, click here

For the Society's Parliamentary briefing on the proposals, click here

Parliamentary briefings

For Parliamentary briefings produced by the Society, click on the links below:

Briefing note for MPs: Second Reading of the Health and Social Care Bill (November 2007)
Proposals to restrict the availability of medicines containing pseudoephedrine and ephedrine (June 2007)
Department of Health White Paper. What it means for the pharmacy profession (May 2007)
Briefing on the Pharmacy and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 (January 2007)
Hospital pharmacy in the 21st century (England; Summer 2006)
Briefing to Peers at Grand Committee Stage of the Health Bill
Briefing to Peers on the Second Reading of the Health Bill
The Health Bill 2005 - A pharmacy briefing
Pharmacy election briefing 2005
For Welsh language version, click here
The regulation of Controlled Drugs in the community: The Fourth Report of the Shipman Inquiry and its impact on pharmacy services (Winter 2004)
Pharmacists - a vital contribution to the new NHS (Winter 2002)
Pharmacists and the modern NHS (Summer 2002)
The NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill (November 2001)