PSI Newsletter

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PSI Newsletter: Issue 8, 2015

• Acting Registrar Appointed
• Health Matters Programme for Pharmacists
• Patient Charter in Development
• Learning from Fitness to Practise Inquiries - A complaint involving the supply of Paralink® suppositories for a child 
• Implementation of Legislation to Widen Access to Certain Prescription-Only Medicines
• Future Pharmacy Project Update
• National Pharmacy Internship Programme 2016/2017
• Approval of interim MPharm
• Interprofessional Learning Conference
• Fitness to Practise Finding and Sanction: Mr. Michael Keenan MPSI
• Other Notices- Continued Registration Going Paperless, HPRA Drug Safety Newsletters, Duty Registers 2016
• PSI Christmas Opening Hours
• Upcoming CPD Opportunities

PSI Newsletter: Issue 7, 2015

• Future Pharmacy Practice Project Update
• New Guidelines for Pharmacists on Counselling and Medicine Therapy Review 
• Feedback on the PSI website and newsletter 
• New Emergency Medicines and Vaccines Legislation 
• Patient Feedback on the Flu Vaccination Service in Pharmacies 
• HPRA Guide to Biosimilars for Healthcare Professionals and Patients 
• Continued Registration Updates 
• Other Notices - Skin Cancer Prevention Action Plan
• Upcoming CPD Opportunities 

PSI Newsletter: Issue 6, 2015

• Future Pharmacy Practice Project update- focus group participants sought 
• Public consultation on draft guidance for use of Monitored Dosage Systems (MDS)
• PSI produces public health/medicines safety leaflet- 'Buying non-prescription medicines safely online'
• Council accreditation of the Five-year Fully Integrated Master’s Degree Programmes in Pharmacy
• Inspection Policy Project update
• HPRA Drug Safety Newsletter
  
• Recruitment - Affiliation for Pharmacy Practice Experiential Learning (APPEL) National Coordinator
• Upcoming CPD Opportunities
  

PSI Newsletter: Issue 5, 2015

• Reminder about the appropriate supply of Anti-Epileptic Medicines
• Learning from Fitness to Practise Inquiries, Number 2
• Evaluation of Influenza Vaccination Service 2014/2015 and Guidance and Training for 2015/2016
• Food Intolerance Testing - guidance from the HPRA
• Learning Points from the PPC Annual Report 2014
• Updates to the Pharmacy Practice Guidance Folder
• New Payment Option for Continued Registration of Retail Pharmacy Businesses
• Professional Indemnity Insurance reminder
• Consultation on the Draft National Competency Framework for Pharmacists Working in Cancer Care
• National Cancer Control Programme Toolkits
• Upcoming CPD Opportunities
• HPRA Drug Safety Newsletter

PSI Newsletter: Issue 4, 2015

• Reminder of responsibilities under the Pharmacist Code of Conduct
• Findings from Inspections in 2014
• Inspection Policy Update and Call for Participants in Focus Group Meetings
• Internet Supply of Non-prescription Medicines
• New Pharmacy Practice Guidance Folder
• Guidance for Pharmacists on Extemporaneous Dispensing
• Public Consultation on Draft Guidelines on the Sale and Supply of Prescribed Medicinal Products from a Retail Pharmacy Business
• Reminder of ellaOne Guidance
• 2015-2016 Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Training and Provider of Training Programmes
• Interprofessional Learning Conference
• Changes to the Continued Registration Process
• Alerts: Prescription pad theft from Blackrock Clinic, and use of forms from Northern Ireland to obtain medicines illegally
  
• Notice of new PSI Council Appointments
• Pharmacy Benevolent Fund Updates
• CPD Opportunities

PSI Newsletter: Issue 3, 2015

• Expressions of Interest Sought
• Share Transfers - How does this affect a pharmacy’s registration?
• Domperidone Test Purchase Exercise
• Dispensing Prescriptions from Online Doctor Services
• Training Placement Registration (CAASP)
• PSI Council Election Results 2015
• New Pharmacy Practice Guidance Folder
• Public Consultation: CPD Statutory Instrument
• Obligations in relation to Cross-Border Insurance
• HPRA Drug Safety Newsletter
• Upcoming CPD Opportunities

PSI Newsletter: Issue 2, 2015

• Update: PSI Council Elections 2015
• Understanding the Corbally Judgement
• Summary of PSI Fitness to Practise activities 2009-2014
• Legislative Update: Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2014
• CPD Opportunities
• Other Notices: HPRA Drug Safety Newsletter, Safefood Childhood Obesity Campaign
• In the matter of Part 6 of the Pharmacy Act 2007

PSI Newsletter: Issue 1, 2015

•     Elections for Pharmacist Members of Council 2015
•     Expressions of Interest for PSI Committees
•     PSI (Council)(Amendment) Rules 2015
•     PSI Guidelines on the Premises and Equipment Requirements of a Retail Pharmacy Business
•     Practice Update: Levonorgestrel guidelines
•     Learning from Fitness to Practise Inquiries, No. 1
•     Inspectors’ Advice on Controlled Drug Segregation and Destruction
•     Inspection Updates: Verification Inspections
•     Comment sought on draft Extemporaneous Dispensing Guidance
•     Other Notices
•     CPD Opportunities.

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