CPA Objectives

The purposes of the Association are to promote and disseminate the pharmaceutical sciences throughout the Commonwealth and to improve the quality and range of services offered there by professional pharmacists, in particular by:

• Promoting high standards of professional conduct amongst pharmacists, having due regard to the honour and traditions of the profession;
  
• Effecting close links between members of the profession in Commonwealth countries and facilitating personal contacts between pharmacists and students;
• Encouraging the creation of a national professional pharmaceutical association in any Commonwealth country where none exists; fostering high standards of pharmaceutical education at all levels; fostering high standards of practice in all branches of the profession; holding Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Conferences;
  
• Facilitating the dissemination of knowledge and information about the pharmaceutical sciences and the professional practice of pharmacy;
• Fostering high standards of control over the quality and distribution of drugs, wherever appropriate by professional means, and to that end encouraging suitable legislation and its implementation;
  
• Liaising with similar associations or allied health professional groups within and outside the Commonwealth to assist in attaining the aforementioned objectives.