Aims and Tasks of Pharmacists’ Society of Lavia (PSL)
- Society’s goal is advocacy of Pharmacists’ and Pharmaceutical assistants’ professional, economical and legal rights in Latvia, promotion of public health in Latvia, improvement of Pharmacists’ and Pharmaceutical assistants’ qualification.
- In the concern of previously mentioned aim, PSL sets the following tasks:
- unite Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical assitants of Latvia
- ensure the advocacy of Pharmacists’ and Pharmaceutical assistants’ professional, economical and legal rights in Latvia
- manage Pharmacists’ certification of professional qualification as mentioned in the regulations
- construct and maintain the register of Pharmacists’ and Pharmaceutical assistants’ of Latvia as mentioned in the regulation
- manage and contribute the improvement of professional knowledge of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical assistants
- manage the evaluation of conformity of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical assistants graduated outside the Republic of Latvia
- develop standard, criteria of quality and guidelines of consultations of Pharmaceutical care, promote its implementation and control the fulfilment
- give opinion on all subjects related to Pharmaceutical care
- give evaluation on Pharmaceutical care related questions or take part in such question evaluation after the request of the court or other institutions
- popularize, promote and control the compliance of professional ethics of Pharmacists, ensure the operation of Pharmacists’ code of professional ethics in Latvia
- promote the comprehension of Pharmaceutical care as an important part of health care system to public and governmental institutions
- promote the prestige of Pharmacist’s and Pharmaceutical assistant’s profession to the society
- support and organize events related to promotion of public health
- cooperate with governmental and non-governmental organizations to achieve the set aims
- promote the advance of Pharmaceutical education system and its content
- develop recommendations for the improvement of scientific and practical pharmaceutical activity
- organize the publication of periodic professional journals
