The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 267 No 7156 p51-52
July 14, 2001

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Primary care pharmacy

Who should be providing legal advice?

From Mr M. E. Q. James, FRPharmS

As a Citizens’ Advice Bureau chairman and now a regional committee member, I am pleased that “Concerned Pharmacist” received such excellent service (PJ, 7 July, p16). However, I am somewhat worried that he should have had to go down the route he did. There ought to be an organisation which could represent colleagues in this situation. The National Pharmaceutical Association, I suppose, does not represent the new sort of independent pharmacists (too concerned with rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic?) and it certainly is not a Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee issue. I am sure that neither the Primary Care Pharmacists Association nor the Primary Community Care Pharmacists Network has the funds to employ legal advisers, but surely there should be someone.

Miall James
Benfleet, Essex

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