From Mr G. S. Phillips, MRPharmS
SIR,-I read with interest and delight in last week's Journal (p798) that Professor Nick Barber has co-written a paper on developing pharmacy values.
Having read some of his work, I hold Professor Barber in high regard: his essays are invariably challenging yet accessible to those, like myself, at the "sharp end". The President remarked (as reported) "that this is an interesting area and one that had not been explored sufficiently". So, I searched in vain for the paper itself only to read (p798) that it is only available by application to the Society's headquarters, and then only upon payment of £10. What chance then of an open debate if the document is not even to be distributed with The Journal?
In these high-tech days of downloadable documents, one has to ask what are the Society's core values? Why is it not on the Society's website? Intellectual arrogance and financial Luddism, perhaps? May I ask that the Society thinks again.
Graham Phillips
St Albans, Hertfordshire
It has been decided that the document will be available free of charge to members upon application to Ms Kerry Crabb at the Society's headquarters.-EDITOR.