From Mr M. Coventry, MRPharmS
SIR,-The concerns voiced by Mr Rhodes (PJ, October 28, p652) that the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the editorship of The Pharmaceutical Journal might be under the control of non-pharmacists must alarm and dismay each one of us.
I raise a parallel concern. I understand that only some 40 per cent of academics teaching in our schools of pharmacy are registered pharmacists. What reassurance can we have that: (i) pharmacy graduates will feel an identity with and sense of calling to the vocation of the practice of pharmacy, (ii) graduates will be adequately prepared and ready for their preregistration training, (iii) newly registered pharmacists will not find themselves in a sphere of professional activity with which they have developed little affinity, and (iv) the availability of pharmacists in the years succeeding the "fallow year" will improve?
Macdonald Coventry Swindon, Wiltshire