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Technical work with WHO

fIP/WHo joint documents

­ Joint FIP/WHO Joint Guidelines on Good Pharmacy Practice

Standards for Quality Services were officially adopted by FIP at the 2011 Congress in Hyderabad. The document was

approved by WHO Expert committee on Specifications for

Pharmaceu tical Preparations on October 2010. In addition,

the FIP/WHO Joint Statement on the role of Pharmacists in

Tuber culosis Care and Control was also signed in Hyderabad.

­ The WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceu­

tical Preparations is in charge of evaluating a large number of

guidelines relating to quality assurance and if found suitable

adopted as international standards.

As every year, FIP is part of the recipients of these draft guide­

lines, and with the support of the sections and the SIGs, share

its comments with WHO. The full list of reviewed documents

are available in the full FIP­WHO report on the FIp website.

­ Multi­professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide

In October 2011, WHO released the Multi-professional patient

Safety Curriculum Guide. This guide aims to assist univer­

sities and schools in the fields of pharmacy (and other health

sciences) to teach patient safety. It also supports the training

of all health­care professionals on a number of priority patient

safety concepts to improve learning about patient safety.

FIP contributes to this guide through extensive review. As

recognition of this involvement, FIP was offered the oppor tunity

to have a foreword in the guide.

­ World List of Pharmacy Schools (current official title: FIP WHO

Global Survey of Pharmacy Schools)

FIP has been collaborating with WHO HRH on this initiative

since 2008. In 2011 the contacts for the World List of Pharmacy

Schools increased from 900 to over 1800 schools through the

support of students/interns and key country contacts. In 2011

the Survey developed between FIP and WHO was sent to all

schools of pharmacy and data collection is ongoing through

the WHO online DataCol system.

­ FIP and the WHO EMP (WHO Department of Essential Medicines

and Pharmaceutical Policies) team have been collaborating on

updating the Global Pharmacy Workforce Report for 2012. The

final report will be available for the FIP Centennial in web and

CD format and a WHO­FIP lunchtime session will be planned

to present the work undertaken and celebrate the successes

countries have made in strengthening the pharmacy work­

force.