The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7239 p333
8 March 2003

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Community pharmacy

Professional image slipping

From Mr C. Morris, MRPharmS

So general practitioners are to be required to do more work in order to earn their pay increase. All community pharmacists get are demands to do more work to earn the same pay — and if we do too much we get less pay.

Might I suggest that all those who try to fly the "Pharmacy needs to expand its professional image" banner spend some time with the British Medical Association and discuss how many things GPs take on for nothing? Taking on more work is not increasing our professional image; I am sure that anyone working at the sharp end knows this. If anything, the professional image of pharmacists is slipping to an image of shopkeepers, especially now when there is a serious threat of a pharmacy in every supermarket. If we do not stand up for ourselves now, soon there will be nothing left to stand up for.

Chris Morris
Newquay, Cornwall

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