The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 267 No 7175 745-748
24 November 2001

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Letters to the Editor

The President

Not the best of achievements

From Mr P. Robinson, MRPharmS

No wonder Marshall Davies is smiling (PJ, 17 November, p727). After I have worked a nine and a half hour day in the pharmacy, he now has the statutory right to interfere with my leisure time.

Not only is this free of charge to him, but it will cost me 40 per cent more on my annual fee. And he can force it upon me with only a 20 per cent electoral mandate and strike me off the register if l do not comply.

He says that "the public's relationship with the profession is changing". In fact, it is the profession's relationship with the public that is changing. "Pharmacy in the future" is not the Government's idea, but the Government's adaptation of the Society's idea. Similarly. the new NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill enjoys the welcome support and encouragement of a thoroughly besotted Lambeth.

He is anxious to emphasise a "commitment to serving the public interest". But how many of our extra roles have been requested by the public? So whose interests are being served?

He may be proud of the Society's record, but I can only see selfishness, ambition, deception and greed. Not the best of qualities for a so-called profession. Nor the best of achievements.

Peter Robinson
Leeds, West Yorkshire

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