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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.