The European Conference on Rare Diseases & Orphan Products (ECRD) is recognised globally as the largest, patient-led rare disease event in which collaborative dialogue, learning and conversation takes place, forming the groundwork to shape goal-driven rare disease policies and allow for important and innovative discussions on a national and an international level to take place.

European policies are influenced by the priorities of their member countries. Rare diseases are featured on the agenda of the upcoming Trio of EU Council Presidencies, held by France, Czech Republic and Sweden between January 2022 and June 2023. ECRD 2022 has been designated as an official event of the 2022 French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which demonstrates considerable support to keep rare diseases as a priority.

On an international level, the United Nations’ adoption of a Resolution on Addressing the Challenges of Persons Living with a Rare Disease in December 2021 also creates the enthusiasm and opportunity to align the European and UN agendas.

It is therefore now the time to consider a new policy framework for Rare Diseases in Europe. This framework would provide an opportunity to set three ambitious goals and a number of sub-targets to tackle Europe’s challenges:

1. Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all people living with a rare disease at all
2. Reduce inequality within and among countries by focusing on equity for people living with a rare disease
3. Building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industry and forstering innovation for people living with a rare disease

See the full ECRD programme HERE

Poster abstracts submissions for the ECRD 2022 closes on 31st March 2022.

HERE you can learn more about the Guidelines, Posters Scoring, Disqualification Criteria and Posters Themes before submitting your abstract.

Dear colleagues,

The Société Française de Pharmacie Clinique SFPC (French Society of Clinical Pharmacy) is pleased to announce its 19th Congress, which will be held in Strasbourg, France, from March 13 to 16, 2022, with the theme Pharmaceutical care: at the crossroads of patient management. This event will be an opportunity to see how the evolution of the integrative model of clinical pharmacy is leading us to resize our profession and our practices to integrate the notion of pharmaceutical care, to discover in this context some innovative practices in ambulatory clinical pharmacy and to exchange our professional experiences in the face of exceptional situations such as the COVID-19 health crisis. In addition, each participant can choose to take part in workshops on various topics that will provide an opportunity to deepen professional practice on targeted patient pathways (cardiology, surgery, rheumatology, psychiatry, geriatrics, pediatrics, etc.) or on methods of optimization in the performance of clinical pharmacy acts. Each learner builds his or her own learning path by choosing the workshops that are best suited to his or her practice. Times of exchange, sharing and conviviality will punctuate these days rich in scientific content. Finally, you will be able to discover Strasbourg, a dynamic city through its heritage (architecture, historical districts), its gastronomy but also its university, its European vision (European institutions such as the EDQM and the European Pharmacopoeia), and its ecological approach with regard to its multiple bicycle paths.

We expect many of you to participate in this congress.

https://sfpc.eu/congres_sfpc/

It is our great pleasure to invite you to take part in the major event 13th Euro-Global Conference on Infectious Diseases which is mainly focusing on how To Promote Excellence in Infectious Diseases which was scheduled on 11-12 October 2021 in London, UK. The main objective of the conference is to bring together Microbiologists, Bacteriologists, experts in child development and other specialists to exchange their ideas and knowledge between the different disciplines for facilitating research and clinical interdisciplinary collaborations.

Aimed at Controlled Drugs Accountable Officers, Pharmacists and Prescribers this virtual conference will update you on current national developments, including issues arising with the supply and prescription of controlled drugs during COVID-19 and preparing for the potential implementation of Controlled drug legislation which has been enabled to “switch on” flexibilities for the supply of controlled drugs during a pandemic. These flexibilities have not been activated at this time. The conference will also discuss controls for pregabalin and gabapentin, and improve practice learning from case studies.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/controlled-drugs-conference or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk
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This virtual conference focuses on demonstrating and improving prescribing competence and practice and use of the National Competency Framework for all Prescribers, and will also update delegates on the December 2019 Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners. The conference will enable you to network with colleagues who are working to improve prescribing competence and practice, self-assess and reflect on your own practice and gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence.
For further information and to book your place visit
https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/prescribing-competence-practice or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk
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7th FIP Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress(PSWC2020), 22 – 27 May 2020 Montreal, Canada More information here: https://pswc2020.congress.pharmacy

We live in exciting times. More than ever, innovation is emerging at the interface of disciplines, holding the promise of smart therapeutics, medicines that are sophisticated in their design and optimised to meet the needs of individuals and communities in a complex world.

FIP has united with the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (CSPS) and the University of Montreal to invite you to the 7th FIP Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress (PSWC2020), taking place from 22 until 27 May 2020 in beautiful Montreal, Canada! 

It is your chance to network with leading experts from across the world, compare best practices and learn about the latest trends in pharmaceutical sciences, including the potential of information-based technologies, challenges and opportunities in global health and new collaborative models for stimulating innovation. The programme will focus on smart therapeutics, with four tracks covering drug discovery and drug development.  Get the latest information here: https://pswc2020.congress.pharmacy/.

Come to Montreal for PSWC 2020 and share the vision of smart therapeutics!

“Rare Diseases 360° – collaborative strategies to leave no-one behind” is the overarching theme of ECRD 2018. This theme reinforces the unique quality of this foremost event for the rare disease community in Europe, bringing together and facilitating effective policy discussions between all rare disease stakeholders. It also encompasses the comprehensive range of topic areas covered at the conference and the viewpoint of rare disease patients as equal experts, representing all rare diseases, across borders.

In 2016, the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) published pharmacy guidelines for responding to natural disasters which aim at helping pharmacists to prepare and manage natural disasters situations. Moreover FIP has issued statement of policy about role of the pharmacist in disaster management this year. Then, a survey is being conducted to determine how hospital pharmacies in Europe are prepared for a natural or manmade disaster and whether they have specifically followed these guidelines since their publications. Moreover, the survey tries to make an inventory of hospital pharmacies that already faced disaster situations and to collect information on how theses hospital pharmacies have managed the disaster situation.

This survey was initiated by Prof Pascal Bonnabry (Chief-pharmacist at the pharmacy of Geneva University Hospitals) and Dr Nicolas Widmer (Chief-pharmacist at thepharmacy of Eastern Vaud Hospitals), who have been mandated by the Swiss Confederation to develop a Centre for Emergency and Disaster Pharmacy at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Its objectives are to offer research and teaching in this field.

Participation in the survey should not take more than 10-15 minutes to fill in case major events were not experienced in the last 5 years. For hospital pharmacies that were faced with a disaster situation the completion of the survey will take less than 30-40 minutes. All answers are welcome even if your hospital pharmacy doesn’t have any special preparedness plan, since every answer is important to FIP.

Answers should be submitted by 22nd December 2017.

4 workshops:

Competence, Professionalism and Excellence in Pharmacy Practice -Cluj Napoca, Romania, 24 November 2017
Continuing Professional Development: Learn Today – Apply Tomorrow!
SMART Way to Plan Your Learning – Learning Styles in Pharmacy
Communication Skills and Time Management in Patient Care

2 speakers:

Arijana Meštrović(Croatia)

Mike Rouse (USA)

Official language: English
For more details, see: www.anfsr.ro , www.academiapharmed.ro or ioan.antofie@anfsr.ro

The seventh annual masterclass on paediatric pharmaceutical care is run by the Paediatric Pharmacy Team at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, which is part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

The masterclass is part of a Kings Health Partners (KHP) initiative and is run in collaboration with the International Alliance for Better Medicines for Children and Global Research in Paediatrics.

The three day masterclass has been specially designed to provide an update on the latest developments in paediatric pharmacy and aims to discuss best practice methods in the safe use of medicines in children.

More information on this Masterclass can be found at:
bit.ly/PPIM_5