{"id":95648,"date":"2018-09-14T15:18:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T15:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=419ac2eb0dbeda2312eed9134a1e77f3"},"modified":"2018-09-14T15:18:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T15:18:52","slug":"news-story-international-federation-of-pharmacists-annual-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=95648","title":{"rendered":"News story: International Federation of Pharmacists\u2019 Annual Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>This year the Military and Emergency Pharmacy Section (<abbr title=\"Military and Emergency Pharmacy Section\">MEPS<\/abbr>) of <abbr title=\"Federation Internationale Pharmaceutique\">FIP<\/abbr> represented over 20 countries. Members are from a variety of defence organisations including those from Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and the Australian Medical Assistance team and non government organisations working in the field of disaster relief.<\/p>\n<p>The UK military were represented with Lt Col Ellie Williams co-ordinating the core <abbr title=\"Military and Emergency Pharmacy Section\">MEPS<\/abbr> events, including a meet and greet event at the Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum, a formal dinner night at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the Host Nation Study Day. The latter was held at Edinburgh Castle and supported by a multidisciplinary UK defence team presenting on vaccinations, the fielding of a new operational analgesia and distribution of blood products in field conditions.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Military and Emergency Pharmacy Section\">MEPS<\/abbr> president said<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The visit to Edinburgh Castle was especially informative. The presentations demonstrated the similar challenges and opportunities that most of our organisations face.  This ability to share and resolve problems together is what makes <abbr title=\"Military and Emergency Pharmacy Section\">MEPS<\/abbr> a successful collaboration of pharmacists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/79204\/FIP_Cert.jpg\" alt=\"Lt Col Ellie William\u2019s receiving a Certificate of Appreciation from the Federation Internationale Pharmaceutique (FIP).\"><\/div><figcaption>Lt Col Ellie William\u2019s receiving a Certificate of Appreciation\u2019 from the Federation Internationale Pharmaceutique (<abbr title=\"Federation Internationale Pharmaceutique\">FIP<\/abbr>). MOD Crown Copyright.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 3,000 delegates attended the annual Federation Internationale Pharmaceutique (FIP) Congress in Glasgow, representing over a hundred different countries on 2 September 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}