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Newsletter
Number 1 – February 07
ZOOM is published
by the Secretariat
of the Community Pharmacy Section of FIP
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Dear Rhaouti Mohaned Laghdaf
This first 2007 edition of ZOOM deals with the coming FIP
congress in Beijing, China.
The
Community Pharmacy Section is offering you a wide range of opportunities
throughout the congress week. Every day in the congress week has its own
theme and exiting programme:
- Forum
for innovators
- Symposia
day
- Forum
for policy makers
- Practitioners
day
- Education
day
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 Practitioners’ day – 5 September 2007
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Continuing Education day –
6 September 2007
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The use of informatics to
improve medication safety – 6 September
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A new handbook: “Developing Pharmacy
Practice - A Focus on Patient Care”
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67th
International Congress of FIP - Beijing, China
The Preliminary Programme for 2007 has
been sent out and is now also available through the official web site of FIP.
The main theme for the congress is: From
Anecdote to Evidence: Pharmacists Helping Patients Make the Best Use of
Medicines.
Please notice early-bird registration 1 May Registration.
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Introduction to Chinese pharmacy practice – 1 September 2007
Would you like to know more about
pharmacy practice in China, about drug distribution and traditional Chinese
medicine?
Then you are invited to a programme consisting of a seminar with
presentations of Chinese experts and to join visits to different types of
pharmacies.
Separate registration is required.
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Forum for
innovators in pharmacy practice – 1-2 September 2007
Forum for Innovators in Pharmacy Practice
is a new concept, developed with the purpose of creating a forum for
sharing experience and exchanging information.
The
Forum is targeted at staff members in Member Organisations and/or project
managers and educators dealing with pharmacy practice development and
implementation of pharmacy based services. The Forum creates a platform for
exchange of experiences, know how and materials.
Separate registration is required.
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See Saturday afternoon programme
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See Sunday morning program
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Symposium day – 3 September 2007
The Symposium Day on Monday has two
symposia, both of them organised in collaboration with the Industrial
Pharmacy Section.
In many countries there is a debate on
how pharmaceuticals influence the environment when
turned into waste. What happens to
non-used medicine and what happens to the residues that leaves our bodies
with urine etc.? The Monday morning symposium deals with this
problem.
The Monday afternoon symposium focuses
on how we as pharmacists can contribute to guaranteeing the best
therapeutic outcome of a pharmaceutical product. A long row of
professionals are involved in this process – from the drug development over
production and quality control and via the distribution channel and the
community pharmacy to the user of the drug. The ultimate goal is safe and
correct use of pharmaceuticals for the sake of patient safety and obtaining
the best therapeutic outcome.
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Forum for policy makers – 4 September 2007
Community pharmacists are at present
facing a number of challenges and opportunities. No matter where in the
world community pharmacists are practicing, issues such as pharmacist
prescribing, deregulation of the pharmacy sector, leadership and
succession, and the role of the pharmacist are on the table. It is crucial
to have an open debate within the profession, encompassing practicing
pharmacists as well as the future professionals.
Pharmacy students (IPSF) and Young Pharmacists Group (YPG) have joined
forces with the Community Pharmacy Section and created this half-day of
“Blue skye” discussions. Six hot topics have been chosen, and key people
have been identified to come and give their –sometimes – provocative views
on the topics and the future. The audience is invited to response.
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Customer relationships – 4 September 2007
At the FIP Congress in Salvador Bahia,
Brazil last year, Lars-Åke Söderlund, Sweden gave us an overview of customer
relationships, why relationships are becoming more important even for
pharmacies, how to deliver a unique customer experience, and insight into
how to provide remarkable experiences for customers and staff alike linked
to the customers expecations of pharmacy's service, and how pharmacies
should act in the future in order to stay competitive.
Söderlund’s presentation appealed so much to the audience that the Section
has decided to explore this interesting area more in depth and have invited
Söderlund to organise a one day seminar on the topic.
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Practitioners’ day
The Community Pharmacy Section has in recent years received an increasing
number of abstracts. Most of them have been accepted for presentation as
posters but due to time constraints only a limited number have been chosen
for short oral presentation.
We have done something about that: we have
allocated a full day for short oral presentations and even made it possible
to have two sessions running in parallel. This means that we have space for
more presentations and that there will be more time for discussions and
experience exchange. The Section has chosen four topics and each topic will
have a half-day programme.
The topics are:
· Innovative ways
of collaboration between community pharmacists and GPs
· Experiences with
patient profiles
· Counterfeit
medicines
· The role of the
pharmacist in public health
Abstracts on topics related to these themes will
have our particular interest for short oral communications, but abstracts
on any theme related to community pharmacy practice are welcomed.
Abstracts for posters are not restricted to these
topics but should of course be of relevance for community pharmacy
practice.
Don’t forget that all posters participate in the competition for the poster
prize.
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Continuing Education Programme – 6 September
2007
From Research to Daily Practice –
Implementing “Family Pharmacy” – an Innovative Strategy and Business Model.
Research
demonstrates its added value in bringing scientific evidence, applicable
workflow methods and quality management standards into practice – easy to
know, but so difficult to do. This is why, in Beijing, this one-day
Continuing Education Programme will focus mainly on the implementation of
innovative research projects into the daily practice of community
pharmacies.
By
providing concrete information, management and education resources, this
Continuing Education Programme will give participants an opportunity to
discuss and work with a number of practice models in the context of their
own experience, culture and national environment.
Separate
registration is required.
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The use of informatics to improve medication
safety – 6 September
The Pharmacy Information Section has
invited our Section to co-organise a symposium on how to improve patient
safety. The safe use of medicines depends on many factors, such as safe
storage, safe prescribing, safe dispensing and counselling. Various
techniques have been developed to improve and support these practices. The
use of informatics has been identified as a crucial component of improving
medication safety.
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A new handbook: “Developing Pharmacy Practice - A
Focus on Patient Care”
FIP and WHO
launched in November 2006 a Handbook on Developing Pharmacy Practice – A
Focus on Patient Care.
For further information, please
contact publications@fip.org or download the
handbook in full.
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Editor: Kurt
Fonnesbæk Rasmussen. Address: Pharmakon a/s, Milnersvej 42, DK-3400
Hilleroed, Denmark. Phone: +45 48 20 60 00. Fax: +45 48 20 60 62. ISSN
1024-4581.
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