Royal Pharmaceutical Society media centre

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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society media team can arrange expert comment and opinion on pharmacy from a wide range of pharmacists and pharmacy leaders.

 

Royal Pharmaceutical Society media highlights

Why come to us?

We represent pharmacists. Pharmacists are experts in medicines. Through the expertise of our members, we can help you get advice on variety of topics including:

• any aspect of medicine

• services provided by pharmacists

• prescription charges

• homeopathy

• pharmacy and the NHS

• commissioning pharmacy services

• prescription dispensing; help with quitting smoking, losing weight 

• medicine shortages and supply chain issues

Pharmacy facts

  • There are 13,000 community pharmacies in Great Britain.
  • There are 49,000 pharmacists in Great Britain.
  • There are 1.8 million visits per day to community pharmacies for health related reasons.
  • Community pharmacies are easily accessible – 99% of the population can get to a pharmacy within 20 minutes by car and 96% by walking or using public transport.
  • The number of prescription items dispensed by community pharmacies in England increased by 43.5 million from 842.5 million in 2008 to 886 million in 2009, an increase of 5.2%.  
  • The most frequent additional services provided in community pharmacies are stop smoking support, supervised administration, minor ailment schemes and supply via patient group directions.

Keep in touch

The headquarters of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society is based at 1, Lambeth High Street, London, SE1 7JN. Our country offices are based in Cardiff and Edinburgh.

If you are a journalist and would like to keep up-to-date with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society you can:

Need a spokesperson?

Staff including the Chief Executive, President and Directors are available for comment and interviews.

In addition, we have a network of clinical pharmacists who work in hospitals and can provide briefings on specific areas of medicine, and local community pharmacists who talk to the media regularly.

We have an ISDN line available at our London office for interviews.