List of pharmacy associations
Encyclopedia
The following is a list of organizations for professionals involved in the practice of pharmacy
. Such organizations are typically professional
societies, as opposed to trade associations
.
Pharmacy
Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
. Such organizations are typically professional
Professional
A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialised set of tasks and to complete them for a fee. The traditional professions were doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and commissioned military officers. Today, the term is applied to estate agents, surveyors , environmental scientists,...
societies, as opposed to trade associations
Industry trade group
A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association or sector association, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry...
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European
- European Pharmaceutical UnionEuropean Pharmaceutical UnionThe European Pharmaceutical Union, abbreviated as EPU, is a European association of individuals, national pharmacy associations and European pharmacy associations that represent pharmacists, and pharmaceutical scientists in Europe. It was founded in 2005....
(EPU) - Pharmaceutical Group of the European UnionPharmaceutical Group of the European UnionThe Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union is the European association representing community pharmacists. PGEU’s members are the national associations and representative bodies of community pharmacists in 30 European countries including the 25 European Union member states, European Union...
(PGEU)
Australia
- Pharmacy Guild of Australia website
- Australian College of PharmacyAustralian College of PharmacyThe Australian College of Pharmacy is one of two providers of continuing professional development programmes for pharmacists in Australia—the other being the The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia...
- Pharmaceutical Society of AustraliaPharmaceutical Society of AustraliaThe Pharmaceutical Society of Australia or PSA is a professional organisation of Australian pharmacists. PSA is the body that represents about 70% of the pharmacy profession in Australia, and it has more than 16,000 members...
India
- Pharmacy Council Of IndiaPharmacy Council of IndiaThe pharmacy education and profession in India up to graduate level is regulated by the Pharmacy Council of India , a statutory body governed by the provisions of the Pharmacy Act 1948 passed by the Indian Parliament....
(PCI) - The Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI)
United Kingdom
- Pharmaceutical Society of Northern IrelandPharmaceutical Society of Northern IrelandThe Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland is the regulatory and professional body for pharmacy in Northern Ireland.As the regulatory body, it seeks to protect public safety in pharmacy by:...
- Royal Pharmaceutical SocietyRoyal Pharmaceutical SocietyThe Royal Pharmaceutical Society is the body responsible for the leadership and support of the pharmacy profession within England, Scotland and Wales...
(RPS)
United States
- American Association of Colleges of PharmacyAmerican Association of Colleges of PharmacyThe American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy is the national association of schools and colleges of pharmacy and their faculty.-External links:* *...
- American Pharmacists AssociationAmerican Pharmacists AssociationThe American Pharmacists Association , founded in 1852, is the first-established professional society of pharmacists within the United States....
- American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP)
- American Society for Pharmacy LawAmerican Society for Pharmacy LawThe American Society of Pharmacy Law is an professional organisation of pharmacist-attorneys, pharmacists, attorneys, and students in schools of pharmacy or law who are interested in the law as it applies to pharmacy.- Goals :...
- American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Foundation
- American Society of Consultant PharmacistsAmerican Society of Consultant PharmacistsThe American Society of Consultant Pharmacists is an international professional association that provides education, advocacy, and resources to advance the practice of senior care pharmacy, and that represents the interests of consultant pharmacists who work with elderly patients.The organization...
(ASCP) - American Society of Health-System PharmacistsAmerican Society of Health-System PharmacistsThe American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is a professional organization representing the interests of pharmacists who practice in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, long-term care facilities, home care, and other components of health care systems.As of 2009, ASHP has 36,000...
- Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group (PPAG)
- Professional Compounding Centers of AmericaProfessional Compounding Centers of AmericaIn 1981, the Professional Compounding Centers of America was incorporated to provide compounded medications to patients, when the medicine became unavailable commercially. PCCA provides education and pharmaceutical consultation on this subject. The organization's philosophy revolves around a triad...
- American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)
See also
- History of pharmacyHistory of pharmacyThe history of pharmacy as an independent science is relatively young. The origins of historiography pharmaceutical back to the first third of the nineteenth century which is when the first historiographies that while not touching all aspects of pharmaceutical history is the starting point for the...
- International Pharmaceutical FederationInternational Pharmaceutical FederationThe International Pharmaceutical Federation or Fédération Internationale Pharmaceutique, abbreviated as FIP, is an international federation of national organisations that represent pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists...
- List of pharmacy schools
- List of pharmacy organizations in the United Kingdom