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This year's FIP Congress will be held in Beijing from 31st August to 6th September. Details can be found from FIP's website.

The event coincides with the 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association (中國藥學會百年慶典). The Pharmaceutical Society has confirmed with CPA that all pharmacists from Hong Kong will be treated as mainland counterparts regarding registration fee and early bird arrangements for the FIP Congress. The fee schedule is as follows:

• Before 1 June : RMB 2,400
• Before 1 August : RMB 2,700
• Before 1 September : RMB 3,000

Details regarding the registration process will be available soon.

The 20th Annual General Meeting was held on 27th April, 2007 and the General Committee members for 2007-2008 were elected.

Dear Pharmacists,

How you can help the development of a future forward strategy for pharmacy

Ever wonder how you can help to shape the future of the pharmacy practice in Hong Kong? Or do you think this is just day dreaming – something impossible or something too remote? Or you might have tried it before but without much success.

In the last few years, we have started to think on the pharmacy future seriously. We have witnessed too many changes. Starting with the Building a Healthy Tomorrow Consultancy document on the health care reform, then the health care financing model, then the introduction of the drug charges, then the Hospital Authority Drug Formulary, then the sale of the Self Financed Items, then the Dr Li Sai Lai medication incidents, then the medication mismanagement problems in the Old Aged Homes, then the dispensing errors in the private doctor’s clinic in Tung Chung and there seem to be endless things happening relating to the pharmacy practice – policy wise, practice wise, quality and safety wise.

本會會長收到香港衛生界專業團體聯席會議召集人黃河先生的函件，現轉載如下：