The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 268 No 7200 p781-786
1 June 2002

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Branch Representatives' meeting summary

Society asked to support payment for engaging in CPD

The meeting asked for the Society's support for the principle that pharmacists should be paid for one session a week of continuing professional development.

Proposing a motion to that effect, Dr STEVEN KAYNE (Glasgow and West of Scotland) referred to the problems of trying to bolt CPD on to an already full working day. Merely attending meetings and collecting College of Pharmacy Practice points was not good enough. He wanted CPD to be quality time, achieving a meaningful outcome that would affect pharmacy practice.

Fulfilling CPD requirements as part of the paid working day — not tacked onto the day's end when one's attention span was waning — was the way to go and it needed the Society's support.