Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Abbreviation	RPharmS, RPS
Predecessor	Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Established	September 2010
Headquarters	66 East Smithfield, London, NW1 2FB
Location	Great Britain
President	Ashok Soni OBE FFRPS FRPharmS
Chief Executive	Helen Gordon
Website	Official website

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPharmS or RPS) is the body responsible for the leadership and support of the pharmacy profession within England, Scotland and Wales. It was created along with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) in September 2010 when the previous Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was split so that representative and regulatory functions of the pharmacy profession could be separated. Although membership of the Society is not a prerequisite for engaging in practice as a pharmacist within the United Kingdom, most practising pharmacists opt to join the Society because of the benefits offered by membership. Its predecessor the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was founded on 15 April 1841.^[1]

Membership

The Society currently offers five categories of membership:

Member Full membership is available to anyone who has ever been registered as a pharmacist in Great Britain, whether or not currently registered with the GPhC.
Fellow Fellowship may be conferred by the Society’s Panel of Fellows on pharmacists who have been members of the Society for at least 12 years and who have been deemed to have made outstanding original contributions to the advancement of pharmaceutical knowledge or to have attained distinction in the science, practice, profession or history of pharmacy.
Associate Associate membership is open to two categories of person: (a) those registered elsewhere in the world who have never been registered in Britain; (b) those who have a recognised degree in pharmacy but have not yet registered as a pharmacist in Britain, either because they are still undergoing their preregistration training or because they are not working in a field of practice that requires registration with the GPhC.
Student Student membership is available to anyone studying for a degree in pharmacy at any institute recognised by the Society (in Britain or overseas).
Pharmaceutical Scientist Pharmacist scientist membership is available to anyone with a degree (or equivalent) in a subject related to pharmacy who has worked for at least two years in a recognised area of the pharmaceutical sciences.

Publishing

The Society operates two divisions of RPS Publishing:

The Pharmaceutical Press publishes textbooks on a wide range of topics in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences including the British National Formulary, the British National Formulary for Children and Martindale: The complete drug reference,
PJ Publications publishes the weekly professional journal The Pharmaceutical Journal and the monthly Clinical Pharmacist.

Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain had a museum collection since 1842, which continues to be managed by the RPS today at its offices in Lambeth. The exhibits cover all aspects of British pharmacy history, and include:

Traditional dispensing equipment.
Drug storage containers.
Fine "Lambeth delftware" dating from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Proprietary (brand name) medicines dating from the 18th century to the present day.
Bronze mortars.
Medical caricatures.
A photo archive.

Since 2002 the Society has concentrated on developing the collection of historical and contemporary proprietary medicines.

The ground floor part of the museum in the RPS reception area is open during normal working hours, but the main parts may only be visited by appointment. In 1983 the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain donated over 10,000 historic specimens of materia medica, including crude drugs, herbarium sheets and slides to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This material is now housed in the Economic Botany Collection (EBC) at Kew.^[2] The museum is a member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine.

References

↑ "About us:history of the society". Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
↑ Economic Botany Collection

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Coordinates: 51°29′40″N 0°07′09″W / 51.4945°N 0.1192°W / 51.4945; -0.1192

Medical regulation in the United Kingdom

Professional bodies covered by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care

Statutory regulators	General Chiropractic Council General Dental Council General Medical Council General Optical Council General Osteopathic Council Health and Care Professions Council Nursing and Midwifery Council Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland General Pharmaceutical Council

Voluntarily accredited associations	Alliance of Private Sector Practitioners (foot health) Association of Child Psychotherapists British Acupuncture Council British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers British Psychoanalytic Council Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council COSCA (Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland) Federation of Holistic Therapists National Counselling Society National Hypnotherapy Society Play Therapy UK UK Public Health Register United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry in the United Kingdom

Companies

Current	AAH Pharmaceuticals Alliance Boots Astex AstraZeneca (MedImmune) BTG plc Cyclacel Dechra Pharmaceuticals GE Healthcare Genus GlaxoSmithKline Hikma Pharmaceuticals Intercytex MacFarlan Smith Norbrook Group Oxford BioMedica Pfizer UK Phytopharm Proximagen Renovo Shire Silence Therapeutics TBS GB Unipath Vectura Group Vernalis ViiV Healthcare

Defunct	Allen & Hanburys Amersham plc Beecham Group Cambridge Antibody Technology Celltech Chiroscience Distillers Company Fisons Glaxo Wellcome Reliant Pharmaceuticals Zeneca

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