Pharmacists are there to help other healthcare professionals on any aspect of medicines use. We know about supplies, prices, quality, dosing, choice of formulation, prescribing options and much more. Pharmacists are your medicine experts! 25 September is
#WorldPharmacistsDay
Happy
#WorldPharmacistsDay
! 🎊 We mark this special day with a video sharing an event at the
#FIPcongress
and including a message from FIP president, Paul Sinclair. A heartfelt thank you to colleagues across allsectors for celebrating with us!
#WPD2023
Happy
#WorldPharmacistsDay
! We bring you a message from our president & invite you to make your own unique
#WPD2020
message with this year’s app to let people know how our
#pharmacy
profession is transforming health:
Pharmacists use their medicines education to protect health and prevent illness. Some of us are immunising our communities against influenza, hepatitis and other infectious diseases. Pharmacists are your medicine experts!
#WorldPharmacistsDay
#WPD2018
tomorrow!
Pharmacists ensure that the right patient gets the right medicine and the right dose. We check that everything is correct and suitable for every individual. Pharmacists are your medicine experts!
#WorldPharmacistsDay
on Tuesday!
#WPD2018
Pharmacists use their scientific knowledge to develop more and better medicines around the world for those who need them. Pharmacists are your medicines experts!
#WorldPharmacistsDay
is on 25 September
#WPD2018
Happy World Pharmacists Day! We’re so pleased to be able to celebrate World Pharmacists Day this year, face-to-face with colleagues from 115 countries at
#FIPcongress
. Are you ready with your
#WPD2019
message?
Download our app here:
We’re proud to share news that our CEO Catherine Duggan is the recipient of the Academy of
#PharmaceuticalScience
and Technology, Japan (APSTJ) Nagai International Woman Scientist Award. The award is being made during the 36th annual meeting of the APSTJ, which began today.
Prof. Ian Bates (UK)
@ucl
has been announced as the director of FIP's Global Pharmaceutical Observatory. The observatory monitors trends in the
#pharmacy
workforce to better understand supply and address population growth demographics & disease burden.
#TransformingPharmacy
Congratulations to
#pharmacist
José Manuel Miñones, named Spain’s new minister of health yesterday. “My first words are to recognise and support the public health system, which is one of the greatest achievements that we have achieved as a country,” he said
International guidelines on how
#pharmacists
should deal with
#2019nCoV
outbreak are issued today by FIP. The guidelines, developed by an emergency taskforce which includes the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, will be available in the six UN languages:
Today, on Pharmacy Technician Day, FIP acknowledges
#PharmacyTechnicians
& other support staff as essential members of the pharmacy workforce. Find out about our advisory committee & strategic platform for the
#pharmacy
support workforce here:
#RxTechDay
Happy
#WorldPharmacistsDay
! We bring you a video from FIP's president with some
#WPD2021
champions from 190+ countries & territories. TOGETHER 💪we made this our farthest ever reaching campaign. Today, we speak for our great
#pharmacy
profession in a TRULY GLOBAL celebration! 🎇
FIP is working with an international taskforce to support
#pharmacists
in helping to control the outbreak of
#coronavirus
2019-nCoV and provide advice & care to their communities. A guidance document for community & hospital pharmacists will be available within a week.
Colleagues at the Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, are taking part in the
#PharmacyHeroes
campaign to help raise awareness of the crucial contribution
#PharmacistsOnTheFrontline
make to health care, especially in these challenging times of
#COVID19
#Pharmacy
students in France 🇫🇷 yesterday held demonstrations to demand an increase in internship allowances and flat rate transport and accommodation allowances in rural areas
📸 Retours photos des 13 villes s'étant mobilisées hier pour la Réforme du 3ème Cycle des études pharmaceutiques
#R3C
Des milliers d'étudiants en
#pharmacie
,
#enseignants
et
#pharmaciens
dans la rue pour espérer une meilleure considération du gouvernement ✊
#R3CMobilisonsNous
“Pharmacists: Your medicines experts” to be theme of World Pharmacists Day, 25 Sept
#WPD2018
. “Put this important date for our profession in your calendar!” ― Carmen Peña, President, FIP.
FIP has released 10 summaries to make its guidance on
#coronavirus
#COVID19
more accessible, covering topics for
#pharmacists
from counselling to use of masks. Share the message and help people to get information from official sources.
Dr Carmen Peňa (Spain), immediate past president of FIP, has been awarded the title Honorary President of FIP for her exceptional service to
#pharmacy
& FIP. Congratulations!
Encourage patients to visit pharmacies as their first port of call for minor conditions if you want to reduce burden on physicians & allow better use of resources, FIP says at
@WHO
#EB144
#PrimaryHealthCare
@ZKusynova
Happy
#WorldPharmacistsDay
🎉
We celebrate the dedication, knowledge, and care that pharmacists bring to our communities every day.
From ensuring safe use of medications💊to providing essential healthcare advice, your impact is immeasurable.
Thank you
Celebrate a Pharmacist❤️
Today sees the official launch of FIP’s Workforce Development Hub. Its mission is to achieve FIP's goal of transforming the global pharmaceutical workforce to meet the health needs of societies.
#TransformPharmacy
.
Congratulations to
#pharmacist
Ana Paula Martins, former president of the Portuguese Pharmaceutical Society
@OFarmaceuticos
, who took office as Portugal’s new health minister last month.
“Thank you for the work you are doing at this critical time. Because of travel bans
#COVID19
, I've been able to work a bit more in my
#pharmacy
, sharing the risks but also the satisfaction of serving my community.”― FIP President Dominique Jordan
#WorldHealthDay
#PharmacyHeroes
Extremely proud to work along side this amazing lot.The way we are working through this unprecedented surge in demand is phenomenal. We just ask for patience and kindness for ALL front line staff during this difficult time. Proud to be a pharmacist ❤️
#Covid_19
#communitypharmacy
Launched TODAY, the FIP Development Goals are a key resource for transforming the pharmacy profession globally, regionally and nationally over the next decade. We are proud to introduce them here.
Pharmacists’ involvement in ensuring
#patientsafety
is crucial, FIP tells ministers at the 4th Global Ministerial Patient Safety Summit, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, today.
#MedicationSafety
A new formulation of vancomycin injection developed by Croatian
#PharmaceuticalScientists
makes the drug available in a ready-to-use-bag that is stable for 16 months instead of 24 hours, avoiding errors associated with production in hospitals.
#PSWC2020
Due to
#COVID19
, FIP &
@Farmaceuticos_
have decided to reschedule FIP’s 80th world congress in Seville, Spain. The new dates are: 12 – 16 September 2021. For information on paid registrations, submitted abstracts, programme and more go to:
FIP raised concerns over insufficient progress towards global targets on NCD prevention and urged countries to allow
#pharmacists
to deliver a full spectrum of services to reduce
#NCDs
at
#WHA2019
today.
@DrLinaBader
Did you know that Italy’s
#pharmacists
are being relied on to meet up to 40% of the country’s
#COVID19
vaccination target? It’s estimated that community pharmacies can do up to 200k administrations per day, helping to reach the national target of 500k per day
#VaccinesWork
Evidence of positive impact of pharmacists on
#PatientSafety
is released by FIP today in a new publication:
#MedicationSafety
Read the report, take up the challenge!
More than 3000 pharmacists came together in Glasgow to ensure patients, and health systems, achieve full benefit from medicines. Thank you for a great event & see you in Abu Dhabi!
More than 2,600 pharmacists came together in Abu Dhabi to discover new horizons for pharmacy & find ways to improve the health of patients everywhere. Thank you for a great event & see you in Seville!
So many of you
#PharmacyHeroes
added your voice to that of FIP’s to promote the
#pharmacy
profession on
#WorldHealthDay
yesterday. Thank you! We will continue advocating for our profession. And we encourage you to do so too.
#FIPcongress
2022 to take place in Cape Town, South Africa! We're looking forward to working with our co-hosts the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa.
We are greatly saddened to hear of colleagues in Spain joining those in Italy & China who have died while caring for their people
#CovidCrisis
. At 12.00CET FIP will be observing the one minute silence being held in Spain in solidarity.
New law expands definition of pharmacy practice, allowing pharmacists to prescribe & dispense
#HIV
Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) medicines & order HIV PEP tests in Colorado, USA. This is great news!
@CUPharmacy
@ColoPharm
#HealthForAll
. Read the bill:
Pharmacists are instrumental in combatting
#AMR
and need to be further utilised as public educators & as a core part of multidisciplinary antimicrobial management teams within local communities & health systems,
@IPSForg
and FIP told
@WHO
#EB144
this week.
Research should be fundamental to influencing and transforming
#pharmacy
practice — FIP CEO Catherine Duggan speaking at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. “The profession needs to articulate the output of our science in terms of patient benefit,” she said.
FIP has designated next week “World Pharmacy Week”, which will showcase the work of our profession around the world and include several key events. Find out more here:
FIP has set up an international space dedicated to exchanging
#COVID19
information & sharing
#pharmacy
#coronavirus
experiences. Start your global dialogue here:
“
#Pharmacists
strengthening health systems” will be the theme of
#WPD2023
on 25/09, FIP announced today. The global campaign is led by FIP each year. Prepare to join us!
#WorldPharmacistsDay
Happy
#WorldPharmacistsDay
! Watch the
#WPD2024
video message from our president Paul Sinclair. A huge thank you to colleagues from all sectors of our profession for celebrating with us!
@pgspharm
Pharmacies will increase the diversity of settings where
#vaccinations
are available. Vaccinating is a chance for
#pharmacists
to get out from behind the counter and have more contact with patients. — Farah Aqqad, project coordinator, FIP,
#FIPVirtual2020
#FIP4vaccination
Pharmacists play a pivotal role in the fight against
#antibioticresistance
by preventing unnecessary use of antibiotics and counselling patients on how to take them — FIP professional secretary Ema Paulino.
#WorldAntibioticAwarenessWeek
Thanks for coming to
#FIP2023
. Next year, Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦, 1-5 September! The theme will be "Innovating for the future of healthcare". We can’t wait for
#FIP2024
👉
#FIPcongress
Happy
#WorldPharmacistsDay
to you
@TumainiMakole
. Thank you so much for sharing FIP's
#WPD2022
message. We wish ALL our colleagues in Tanzania a GREAT day!💪💪🎉🎉❣️❣️We appreciate all your efforts towards a healthier world
Today, on
#WorldHealthDay
, the value of involving pharmacists in the prevention, early detection & management of non-communicable diseases is highlighted in a new FIP report. Isabel Jacinto, chair of FIP’s Working Group on NCDs, explains how it can be used
Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham (
@DrBahijjaRaimiA
), associate professor in pharmaceutics at Kings College London, UK, was announced by FIP as the new chair of FIPWiSE today. Find out more about FIPWiSE 👉
Pharmacists can reduce people’s cardiovascular risk by around 21% — Ross Tsuyuki, professor of medicine (cardiology) and director of the epidemiology, University of Alberta, Canada. Watch
#FIPcongress
video to find out more.
We congratulate Dr Naoko Arakawa, who has been selected by the FIP Bureau as the federation’s interim education secretary, taking up position from 1 August. Read more here 👉
FIP is pleased to announce Martin Schulz, RPh, PhD, FFIP, as the recipient of its 2020 André Bédat Award for pharmaceutical practice. Congratulations Prof. Schulz!
#Pharmacy
#PharmaceuticalCare
@ABDA_Berlin
Around 88 pharmacy professionals started
#FIPcongress
Day 3 with the 5km FIP Fun Run this morning. Well done to all who took part and special congratulations to Simon Bell, Australia, who was first past the finish line 🏆
Hundreds of postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows & supervisors are at FIP’s conference in Lisbon, Portugal, to present research, network and help increase the quality & quantity of
#PharmacyPracticeResearch
globally.
“Safe and effective medicines for all” is this year’s theme for
#WorldPharmacistsDay
. Save the date & get ready to celebrate our profession. More here:
#WPD2019
A toolkit for
#MedicinesReconciliation
, out today, is the latest resource produced by FIP to support
#pharmacists
in improving
#PatientSafety
& contribute to the
@WHO
's 3rd Global Patient Safety Challenge, “Medication without harm”. Get the toolkit here:
Dr Prosper Hiag (Cameroon), Dr Marianne Ivey (USA),
& Dr Virginia Olmos (Uruguay) have been elected as new FIP vice presidents at the FIP Council Meeting in Seville today. Congratulations!
#FIPcongress
#Pharmacists
are ready to support UN Member States in providing integrated, people-centred services. ―
@ZKusynova
, FIP lead for policy, practice & compliance, at
#WHOEB146
in Geneva today. Watch the statement being given.
#PrimaryHealthCare
Thank you to over 3,000 colleagues from at least 138 countries/territories & from every sector of pharmacy who shared FIP's
#WPD2022
message through activities & social media, showing that our profession is truly united to achieve good health & well being for all!
“There is no
#PrimaryHealthCare
without community pharmacy,” ― FIP Vice President Samira Shammas at the 3rd National
#Pharmacy
Conference in Sun City, South Africa, earlier this month.
To help
#pharmacists
advise people on
#COVID19
tests, FIP has today issued a guidance document produced by its SARS-CoV-2 Testing Working Group, which has evaluated the
#diagnostic
#testing
methods and devices currently available. Access the guidance here:
Pharmacists are often the unsung heroes- the experts in medicines who are at the
#COVID19
frontline; not only providing medicines but also advice and support around
#CoronaVirus
Let us thank them for the hard work & continuity of their essential healthcare service.<280>
Join 4.000 pharmacists from over 100 countries at the
#FIPcongress
2018 in Glasgow. For this years' main topics, a first glimpse at the schedule and much more go to:
Ahora más que nunca los farmacéuticos estamos en primera línea a pie del cañón💪🏻Aquí estaremos siempre para atenderos a vuestra disposición.
¡Mucho ánimo y fuerza compañeros!
Juntos y con responsabilidad venceremos al
#coronavirus
#tufarmaciacontigo
#codvid19
#coronavirusespa
ña