The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7247 p633
3 May 2003

Society summary

1,077 more pharmacists in 2002

The annual report of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Registrar for 2002 shows a net increase of 1,077 in the total number of persons on the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists. The total membership at the end of the year was 45,641, a rise of 2.4 per cent on the previous year end total of 44,564.

The increase of 1,077 in 2002 is a return to a more typical figure after an unusually low increase in 2001, when the number of new registrants was affected by the implementation of the four-year pharmacy degree course in England and Wales. The average annual increase over the past 10 years has been 786.

The registrar's report also shows that at the end of 2002 there were 12,167 pharmacy premises on the Register, 53 fewer than at the beginning of the year.

The Registrar's report is set out below, with the 2001 figures for comparison.