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SAPC elects new leadership - The South African Pharmacy Council is pleased to announce that Mr Bada Pharasi has been elected as President of the Council. The recently constituted Pharmacy Council held its first meeting on 12 February 2009 and elected its new Executive Committee. Members will hold office until October 2013. Read more
Pharmacists, take the leadership role!
‘Stop AIDS. Keep the promise’
The theme for World AIDS Day 2007 and 2008 is “leadership”. This theme will continue to be promoted with the campaigning slogan, “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.” Leadership was selected as the theme for World AIDS Day to encourage leaders at all levels to stop AIDS. Building on the 2006 theme of accountability, leadership highlights the discrepancy between the commitments that have been made to halt the spread of AIDS, and actions taken to follow them through. The theme empowers everyone from individuals to organisations to governments to lead in the response to AIDS. http://www.worldaidscampaign.org
To read more about the theme, click here.
To download the 2008 World AIDS Day posters click here
2008 Pharmacy week - Your
Pharmacist Cares for you!
The theme for this year's Pharmacy Week is Your Pharmacist cares for You!
(Usokhemisi wakho uyakunakekela!).
Pharmacy Week has gone from strength to strength since it was first launched by Health Minister, Dr Manto Tsabalala-Msimang, on 10 September 2001 at a colourful event at Orange Farm in the Vaal Triangle and is now an established feature on the National Health calendar. The theme for this year's Pharmacy Week is: Your Pharmacist cares for You! The campaign will focus on highlighting the importance of Health education and the essential role that your pharmacist plays therein. It will also address the importance of quality medicine and the quality of life, as well as focusing on the role of the pharmacist as central to achieving desirable health outcomes. Read more
Abuse of ‘morning-after pill’ by teenagers. The SA Pharmacy Council has noted with concern a report published last week in a newspaper article which revealed that pharmacists are concerned about the rate in which teenage girls, some as young as 13 years, buy the ‘morning-after pill’, in the Tshwane area in Gauteng Province. Read more
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SAPC announces SAPC/Boehringer-Ingelheim National Pharmacist of the Year Award Winner! Read more
The theme for this year's Pharmacy Week is Change your life-Make healthy choices! (Fetola botshelo jwa gago - dira kgetho e e maleba). Read more
Call for Nominations (Sunday Times - 19 Aug 2007)
Unique expertise of pharmacists recognised with publication of professional services for which a pharmacist may levy a fee - The long awaited Rules relating to services for which a pharmacist may levy a fee and the guidelines for levying such a fee was published in the Government Gazette on Friday, 23 February 2007. Read more
Patients remember your rights! - It has been brought to Council’s attention that seemingly laypersons at certain medical schemes are contacting patients by phone or letter regarding generic and/or therapeutic substitution of their prescription medicines. This is not legal, according to the Health Professions Act, Medicines Act and the Pharmacy Act, which prescribe that only doctors and pharmacists may suggest or recommend such generic and therapeutic substitution. More
World Aids Day (1 December 2006) - Pharmacists, a valuable resource in the fight against HIV/AIDS
Announcement of the new Dispensing fee for Medicine - 31 October 2006
Speech by NDoH "There are pharmacies that continued to charge the 26%/R26 fee even though other pharmacies were charging higher fees. We would like to thank these pharmacies for making medicines more affordable to our people."
Pharmacy Week 2006 – SAPC Media Release
4 - 10 September 2006. “It is our pleasure as pharmacists to serve all the people of our wonderful country. We all know that without pharmacists the country would be hard pressed to continue providing the much needed comprehensive health care services,” says South African Pharmacy Council President, Prof Peter Eagles. Read more |
