The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7232 p82
18 January 2003
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CPDNo justification for removalFrom Mrs B. M. C. Norton, MRPharmS Dr Stephen Axon (PJ, 21/28 December 2002, p886) expresses the thoughts and concerns of many of us who are retired and non-working and was justified in being critical of the response to Dr G. B. Drummond (PJ, 14 December 2002, p846) by Dr Robert Dewdney, who suggested referral to the Pharmacy Act 1954 as a source of relevant statutory powers with respect to registration. Having now read the Act, a very salient point therein reads as follows: "Every person registered as a pharmaceutical chemist pays an annual retention fee and is a member of the Society. If he ceases to be registered, he ceases to be a member". I see no reference to being removed from the register on reaching retirement age, not working and not undertaking continuing professional development. If we pay our retention fee, then there is no justification for removal without some form of appeal or representation. Even someone whose name is removed from the register for some gross misdemeanour has the right to appeal for reinstatement. If the Society is bent on this course of action, then let it behave in a truly professional and humane manner, by giving at least a minimum of three months' notice of the date of removal taking place, so that we may retire from the register rather than be erased. With the recent arrival of the retention fee renewal form, I had considered retiring forthwith, but have decided to pay the fee and stay on the register so that I may receive The Journal and keep up with further developments of this ignominious proposal. Barbara Norton
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