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	The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 268 No 7191 p431-434 30 March 2002	This page Reprint Photocopy
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I fear for future of the BPC

From Mr K. M. Williams, MRPharmS

We in the Bolton branch of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society are in total agreement with our colleagues in Dorset (PJ, 9 March, p327) about not sending representatives to this year's British Pharmaceutical Conference, even though it is happening on our doorstep in Manchester.

Our branch grant will be in the order of £1,100. To suggest that we spend over £800, nearly 75 per cent, of that grant on conference fees alone shows a total lack of understanding of the basics of running a branch.

I fear for the future of the conference if ordinary practising members of the profession cease to attend and it becomes the sole preserve of scientists and researchers.

Keith Williams
Secretary,
Bolton Branch,
Royal Pharmaceutical Society

BEVERLEY PARKIN, director of public affairs, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, replies:

The Council, at its December 2001 meeting, reaffirmed its aim of attracting more practising pharmacists to the BPC. It agreed a strategy for the future of the BPC, which it wants to see develop into a prime attraction for all practising pharmacists, whose professional and continuing professional development needs the conference will support.

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