A trusted provider of prescribing expertise

Founded in 1931, the British Pharmacological Society is now a global community of over 3,500 members, and is proud of the contributions made by clinical pharmacology to improved patient care and safety. The Society champions safe and effective prescribing around the world:
 

• Jointly developing a national prescribing assessment in the United Kingdom with the Medical Schools Council
• Creating e-learning facilities for e-Learning for Health, part of the UK's Department of Health: Prescribe and the Prescribing simulator
• Publishing 'How to teach prescribing/pharmacology' for a worldwide audience - a special issue of our publication, the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
• Supporting medical school teaching by publishing a core curriculum in clinical pharmacology and prescribing for medical students
• Promoting the safe and effective use of medicines by producing ‘Ten Principles of Good Prescribing’