Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Abbreviation RPharmS, RPS
Predecessor Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Established September 2010 (2010-09)
Headquarters East Smithfield
London, E1
Location
President
Martin Astbury FRPharmS
Chief executive
Helen Gordon
Website rpharms.com

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]

Headquarters

Headquarters of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society at East Smithfield, London E1

The headquarters of the society are on East Smithfield Road, located near Whitechapel and St Katharine Docks.[2] From 1976 until 2015 the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's former headquarters was in Lambeth on Lambeth High Street.[3]

Membership

The Society currently offers five categories of membership:

Publishing

The Society operates two divisions of RPS Publishing:

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:

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.[4] The museum is a member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine.[5]

National Pharmacy Boards

The three boards provide professional leadership and advocacy support for pharmacy practice in England, Scotland and Wales respectively. The members of the boards are elected by the members of the society.[6]

See also

References

  1. "About us:history of the society". Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
  2. "Contact Information". Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  3. "Pharmacy History and Lambeth". Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  4. Economic Botany Collection
  5. "Medical Museums". medicalmuseums.org. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  6. "Results of the National Pharmacy Board Elections 2017". Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Retrieved 14 July 2017.

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

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