2021-02-17 16:12:31
We are deeply saddened to report the death from COVID-19 of our founder, Joy Wingfield.
Joy was chair of the Pharmacy Law & Ethics Association until 2015.
Early in Joy’s career, she was an inspector of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain when it was the regulator of the pharmacy profession. Later, she became Boots Special Professor of Pharmacy Law and Ethics at the University of Nottingham. In 2009, she was also appointed visiting professor of pharmacy law and ethics at the University of Hertfordshire.
Joy was a titan in the field of pharmacy law and ethics. With Gordon Appelbe and, later, Karen Pitchford, she edited Dale & Appelbe’s Pharmacy and Medicines Law (the original title was Pharmacy Law & Ethics) from the fifth edition in 1993 until the eleventh edition in 2017. She was also the co-author of Pharmacy Ethics and Decision Making (2007) and the author of Practical Exercises in Pharmacy Law and Ethics (1997, 2002). Joy made many contributions to the Pharmaceutical Journal and her wit often came through. For example, when writing on the vexed subject of decriminalising dispensing errors, she began a PJ article in 2015 “Well hooray and alleluia! A ray of common sense pierces the clouds of officialdom.”
Following her retirement, Joy became Honorary Professor of Pharmacy Law and Ethics at the University of Nottingham. Until 2017, Joy maintained a pharmacy consultancy, Wingfield Works, enabling pharmacists and organisations to continue to benefit from her expertise and wisdom. She retained an interest in PLEA and was in touch over the date of our 2020 seminar which she had hoped to attend.
In Joy’s long career, she made a major contribution to the subject of pharmacy law and ethics, breaking new ground in the way she brought to the fore the subject of ethics in pharmacy teaching and practice.
We hope to publish a more detailed appreciation of Joy in the near future.