September 2002
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Chief Pharmacist joins Pharmacy External Advisory Board

The Chief Pharmacist for the Department of Health, Dr Jim Smith, has recently joined the School of Pharmacy's External Advisory Board.

Dr Smith has established and is leading a taskforce on partnership in pharmacist prescribing and taking forward debate on the roles of pharmacists and their staff, so that full use is made of the talents and skills of pharmacy technicians and other support workers.

Dr Smith has worked in community, hospital, industrial and academic pharmacy and had particular interests in community pharmacy development, in medicines information and adverse drug reaction monitoring, and in the management of prescribing and medicines use.

He had also worked on the pharmaceuticals programme of the World Health Organisation regional office for Europe.

He will be a great asset and valuable resource to the school of pharmacy and will be able to advise on the strategic development of Pharmacy's courses, with first hand knowledge of the governments agenda for pharmacy.

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