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Queen's Golden Jubilee

Medals for pharmacists?

From Mr P. R. Scott, MRPharmS

I have been informed that the Queen's golden jubilee will be marked by the issue of the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal which will be issued, certainly to the military, and, I would presume, to “deserving” civilians who are nominated for it. I would urge the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to consider nominating those members who have spent a significant proportion of their lives — perhaps 20 or 25 years since qualifying — serving their communities in the course of their profession.

I accept that few pharmacists enter the profession with the expectation of receiving honours and awards but we should recognise that our civil service paymasters who, each year that I can recall, give us a less-than-inflation settlement, do regard such honours as a perk that goes with their job. Maybe, if they were faced in future by most of our negotiators metaphorically wearing their jubilee medals, they might treat us with marginally more respect.

P. R. Scott
Wimborne, Dorset

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