Leadership and influence

摘要

Leadership and influence are loose themes for this week's issue.An evaluation of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's leadership pilot programme-which was launched in England last year-shows that the programme seems to have been successful.Just under 80 per cent of those questioned said that the programme had had a major impact on helping them develop and contribute to solving a local problem(p85).Communicating with other health professionals and being able to integrate pharmacy into the NHS were highlighted as part of the success.It would be interesting to find out how many of the pharmacists involved in establishing new out-of-hours pharmaceutical services(News feature p71)would also cite communication and integration as key to their success.