The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7232 p83
18 January 2003

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The Register

Omitting addresses is a backwards step

From Mr G. Dilley, FRPharmS

The proposal of the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to seek power to limit pharmacists' addresses in the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists to the postal town (PJ, 7 December 2002, p825) should be abandoned. A detailed criticism of the proposal, including the claim that it would bring extra security, has been forcefully made by Dr J. A. Hunt (PJ, 21/28 December 2002, p886). The registers form a unique fund of information both for current use and for many aspects of historical research. Members should not be deprived of the full references that, traditionally, they have enjoyed.

Moreover, to list pharmacists as little more than names and numbers would reflect on pharmacy — particularly when compared with other professions, including medicine. Such a shortening would be redolent more of a remote regulatory authority than a professional organisation of members.

I hope that the Council will have second thoughts on the proposal and so avoid a historic backwards step.

Gordon Dilley
Exeter

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