Royal Pharmaceutical Society
| Abbreviation | RPharmS, RPS |
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| Predecessor | Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain |
| Established | September 2010 |
| Headquarters | East Smithfield London, E1 |
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President
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Martin Astbury FRPharmS |
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Chief executive
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Helen Gordon |
| Website | rpharms.com |
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPharmS or RPS) is the body responsible for the leadership and support of the pharmacy profession within England, Scotland and Wales. It was created along with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) in September 2010 when the previous Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was split so that representative and regulatory functions of the pharmacy profession could be separated. Although membership of the Society is not a prerequisite for engaging in practice as a pharmacist within the United Kingdom, most practising pharmacists opt to join the Society because of the benefits offered by membership. Its predecessor the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was founded on 15 April 1841.
The headquarters of the society are on East Smithfield Road, located near Whitechapel and St Katharine Docks. From 1976 until 2015 the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's former headquarters was in Lambeth on Lambeth High Street.
The Society currently offers five categories of membership:
The Society operates two divisions of RPS Publishing:
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain had a museum collection since 1842, which continues to be managed by the RPS today at its offices in Lambeth. The exhibits cover all aspects of British pharmacy history, and include:
Since 2002 the Society has concentrated on developing the collection of historical and contemporary proprietary medicines.
The ground floor part of the museum in the RPS reception area is open during normal working hours, but the main parts may only be visited by appointment. In 1983 the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain donated over 10,000 historic specimens of materia medica, including crude drugs, herbarium sheets and slides to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This material is now housed in the Economic Botany Collection (EBC) at Kew. The museum is a member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine.
Coordinates: 51°29′40″N 0°07′09″W / 51.4945°N 0.1192°W
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