Medway school of pharmacy

Ruth qualified as a pharmacist in 1978 and worked as a community pharmacist rising to regional manager then project manager for a large chain in the early 1990s. In 1992 she took up the post of Head of Ethics at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. From 1997 until 2004 Ruth was a magistrate in Kent. Prior to taking up her full time post at the School in June 2004 Ruth was a Senior Pharmaceutical Adviser to the Kent and Medway Primary Care Trusts. Ruth completed her PhD in Pharmacy ethics at Cardiff School of Pharmacy in 2004.

Programme Leader for the Foundation Degree in Pharmacy Practice, Head of Assessment and Examinations, year one co-ordinator for the MPharm Programme and course co-ordinator for three courses within the Undergraduate Programme.

Specialist area: Pharmacy Practice, law and Ethics.

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Evaluation of new service provision in pharmacy practice: focus on qualitative and quantitative perspectives. How pharmacist practitioners are rising to the challenges set under the new NHS pharmaceutical services contract (2005), the influence this has had on service provision, educational provision, clinical or other benefit to patients.

Professional discipline in the pharmacy profession – how the profession maintains the register and quantitative analysis of the types of infringements dealt.

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• Rodgers RM, John DN (2006) Paternalism to professional judgement – the history of the code of ethics. Pharm J 276:721-2
• Rodgers RM, John DN (2005) To strike off, or not to strike off: A descriptive study of ethics infringement cases. IJPP 13: R77
• Rodgers RM (2003) On target in Kent. Pharmacy Magazine. Aug 24th 2003: 24
• Rodgers RM (2000) Private and Confidential. Chemist and Druggist – Pharmacy Update 254:6227 vi
• Rodgers RM (2000) Knowledge is king. Chemist and Druggist – Pharmacy Update 254:6229 viii

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