The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7238 p301
1 March 2003

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Letters to the Editor

CPD

Materials should be produced by practising pharmacists

From Reverend G. J. Weeks, MRPharmS

I accept that the Society has no choice but to bow to the Government and accept compulsory continuing professional development. As Chesterton observed, those who will not be governed by 10 commandments will be governed by 10,000.

However, my recollection of my degree is of education that was, in the main, irrelevant to my subsequent career in community and hospital pharmacy. My estimate is that 90 per cent of what I learnt I did not use and 90 per cent of what I needed to know was not taught. (In slight mitigation of pharmaceutical education I will add that in my next discipline, theology, the figures were much worse.)

This past experience leads me to plead that those producing the CPD materials be those involved in the relevant branch of pharmacy. Practising community pharmacists must be the producers of the materials for community pharmacists, not academics who do not inhabit our real world.

Graham J. Weeks
Greenford, Middlesex

An insult

From Mr R. L. Baines, MRPharmS

Mandatory continuing professional development is an insult to our intelligence and integrity. If the majority of pharmacists put up with this intrusiveness, then what an aberrant lot they are — and I will be happy if they remove me from the register.

Robert Baines,
Ullesthorpe, Leicestershire

What to call retired pharmacists

From Mr W. T. Arbon, MRPharmS

Simple — relieved!

W. T. Arbon
Polegate, East Sussex

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