In September 2022, the PDA became a proud member of FIP. As a member, the PDA has been able to represent the collective experience and interests of pharmacists in the UK and contribute to the international conversation.
This year, the PDA has worked alongside FIP and supported the organisation to address important issues and advocate for pharmacists globally.
Paul Day, PDA Director said, “We are proud of the work that the PDA and FIP have accomplished in 2023.
We have faced many global challenges this year and know that there is still a lot to achieve in 2024, so we hope to continue making a positive impact across the many areas of pharmacy and global health.”
Read FIP’s compilation of the work that has been accomplished this year:
- Advocacy Highlighting to ministers our profession’s work on tackling substandard and falsified medicines, the need to invest in pharmacy as integral to care, our value in vaccination coverage, recognising the value of self-care, public health emergencies, and patient safety. Publishing a policy statement on sustainability; Promoting the profession through FIP’s 2023 World Pharmacists Day and World Pharmacy Week campaigns;
- Humanitarian & emergency preparedness Supporting colleagues and continued pharmaceutical care in areas affected by natural disasters and conflicts; Publishing a new policy statement on pharmacists’ roles in disaster management; Producing a report and digital resource on pandemic preparedness;
- Primary health care Producing a report on pharmacy-based point-of-care testing for screening, disease state management and clinical decision-making; Publishing reports by our Community Pharmacy Section on privacy and confidentiality, and workforce sustainability and positive practice environments;
- Education and workforce Renewing our agreement with UNESCO concerning the UNITWIN Network on Global Pharmacy Education; Development and launching a FIP-UNESCO UNITWIN centre of excellence to improve academic capacity in the South-East Asia region; Assuring quality of training with the FIP Seal; Publishing a handbook for our academic institutional members to improve enrolment in schools of pharmacy; Producing a handbook to support the use of FIP’s Global Competency Framework; Updating our course to improve digital health literacy among practitioners and educators; Publishing a report on key priorities and challenges in professional education and training systems across 21 selected countries; Collaborating with other healthcare professions to share evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on our health workforce; Providing opportunities for colleagues around the world to develop and network through the 81st World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and over 90 digital events;
- Patient safety Publishing a policy statement on medicines information; Publishing a regulatory tool to support the detection of substandard and falsified medicines;
- Antimicrobial resistance Publishing a policy statement on antimicrobial resistance; Promoting pharmacists’ roles in AMR during World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week; Sharing findings from an international survey investigating AMR education;
- Vaccination Developing a policy toolkit supporting a life-course approach to immunisation through pharmacy; Making a policy statement on life-course vaccination; Publishing a regulatory tool for countries to assess readiness for pharmacist vaccination; Creating a new FIPX course on vaccination targeting Indian pharmacists;
- Pharmacy data and intelligence Producing a report on pharmacists’ roles in hygiene, and intelligence on pharmacist-led common ailments schemes;
- Transformation Launching the new FIP Hub to inform and support the FIP Development Goals;
- Tobacco cessation Facilitating country and region discussions on tobacco cessation; Publishing a statement on e-cigarettes; Producing a handbook and a knowledge and skills guide to support tobacco cessation;
- Self-care Publishing a quick reference guide on supporting self-care of reflux symptoms; Producing series of CPD Bites on common ailments and self care; Producing an intelligence report on community pharmacists understanding of self-care;
- Sharing insights Publishing FIP advisory group, insight board and round table reports on a variety of areas, such as the gender gap in pain management, digital health interventions, personalised care of pain, advancements in digital pharmacy, health literacy, health inclusivity and sustainability in health care.
Learn more
- Pharmacists tackling climate change
- PDA Chairman speaks at FIP’s event on Astana Declaration on primary health care
- PDA to campaign for member benefits at the FIP Annual Global Congress
- PDA shares 2023 message from International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) President
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Membership is FREE to pharmacy students, trainee pharmacists, and for the first three months of being newly qualified.
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