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Editorial Board Membership

The editorial board takes representation from relevant stakeholder communities including:

Data Providers - Association British Pharmaceutical Industry
Dictionary Maintainers - Prescription Pricing Authority
Dispensers - Community Pharmacists, Royal Pharmaceutical Society GB
Distribution - representatives from the commercial sector
Policy - Department of Health
Prescribers - General Practitioners and Nurse Prescribers, Royal College General Practitioners
Standards - NHS Information Authority
Terminologists - expertise in NHS clinical codes
Other stakeholders depending on NHS policy

Membership of the Primary Care Drug Dictionary Editorial Board March 2003

Name	Extract	Area
Dr Peter Clappison	Senior Medical Officer Department of Health	Department of Health prescribing policy
Mrs Christine Dalton	Director Pharmaceutical Policy and Services Prescription Pricing Authority	Dictionary maintainer
Mr K Farrar	Chief Pharmacist Arrowe Park Hospital	Secondary Care
Mr Paul Fieldhouse	Pharmacist Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics at Newcastle University	Decision support
Mr Paul Frosdick	Principal pharmacist NHS Information Authority	UKCPRS Programme
Dr Hugh Glover	Blue Wave Informatics	Systems suppliers and commercial database distributors
Ms Susan Grieve	Principal Pharmacist Department of Health	Department of Health reimbursement policy
Dr Pete Johnson	Medical and Computing Consultant	Royal College of General Practitioners, prescriber domain and clinical decision support
Dr Philip Leech	Principal Medical Officer Department of Health	Department of Health Chairman of editorial board
Mr Tom Marley	Research Fellow Salford Health Informatics Research Environment	Data modeller and terminologist
Mr Ian Shepherd	Royal Pharmaceutical Society GB	Royal Pharmaceutical Society GB and dispenser domain
Mr Mike Wallis	Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry	Pharmaceutical Industry
Ms Caroline Brennan	Medicine Control Agency	Licensing Authority for Pharmaceuticals

The deliberations of the Editorial Board will impinge upon matters of Department of Health policy, as a consequence the Editorial Board will be chaired by a representative of the Department of Health. The Principal Medical Officer will undertake this role. In addition to safeguarding public policy Department of Health chairmanship will ensure that the Editorial Board is clearly impartial vis-à-vis commercial imperatives.

Responsibilities

Resolution of design decisions remaining from the design phase of the dictionary. These include issues such as the source of necessary code-lists, the way certain reimbursement entities will be represented, and general file structures for the dictionary.
An ongoing responsibility for maintenance decisions on the delivered product including how and when to provide extensions to the dictionary's coverage, and resolution of any contentious issues arising out of operating experience and in relation to other providers of prescribable product information in the NHS.
The ongoing overview of any governance relationships between the maintainer of the Drug Dictionary (the Prescription Pricing Authority) and commercial deliverers and implementers of the drug dictionary in primary care.
Approval of editorial policy and ownership of the dictionary contents as Crown copyright.

A copy of the PCDD Editorial Policy can be downloaded from the following page click here.