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The RPS is revelling in its role as a professional body now it has thrown off the €strait jacket of regulation€, president Ash Soni told delegates at the RPS conference. Since the General Pharmaceutical Council took over all regulatory functions five years ago, the RPS has enjoyed the freedom of professionalism, Mr Soni said.

€The RPS is an organisation that looks to create dreams and remove nightmares.€
Of particular importance in terms of the latter is the ongoing work to decriminalise dispensing errors, he said, and he called on the chief pharmacists of the four UK home countries €“ all of whom attended the conference €“ to make this a reality.

Ash Soni - creating dreams

One way in which the RPS has moved the profession forward is the introduction of the foundation and Faculty programmes, described by Mr Soni as €the cornerstone of demonstrating our practice, and ensuring continuously improving care for patients and the public€ and, in the future, €the gold standard for continuing fitness to practise€.

• Suzanne Scott-Thomas, chief pharmacist of Cwm Taf University health board, said that the position statement adopted by her health board whereby all pharmacists are expected to be RPS members and engage with the foundation or Faculty, with a view to achieving membership at the appropriate level by 2018, was being rolled out across Wales. This applied to all pharmacists employed by health boards and trusts across the country, she said.