The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7249 p680
17 May 2003

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CPD

An inactive fool?

From Dr T. L. B. Spriggs, MRPharmS

Yesterday I received a letter from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society informing me of my username and password to enable me to keep my continuing professional development record on the CPD website. I was somewhat dismayed to read that my password was “group and fool”. How encouraging! This must have consumed incredible hours of reflective practice by its originators. Could it by any chance have been conceived by the same crew that are attempting to classify me as “inactive” because I do not fit their employment straitjacket?

T. L. B. Spriggs
Cardiff

How will CPD work for those practising overseas?

From Mr A. J. Bourke, MRPharmS

I have been a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society but resident in Australia for 20 years. I receive my copies of The Journal by sea-mail, about 12 weeks after their issue date. As such I would normally be informed in mid-May that the Society values my contribution on continuing professional development and would like me to have shared it some six weeks previously. Personally I have no problem with the concept of CPD but given the opportunity I would have raised the following observations and questions:

• It would be unfair if, by virtue of membership of the Society, the CPD requirements compromise the ability of people registered elsewhere to practise the profession where there may be no CPD requirements
  
  
• Will any provision be made to recognise CPD undertaken elsewhere?
  
  
• What will be the impact generally on the reciprocal registration arrangements with Australia and New Zealand?
  
  
• How will CPD requirements tie in with reciprocal arrangements with other European Union states? Will a pharmacist who is qualified in Poland, without undertaking any CPD, be entitled to register in Britain while a comparable British pharmacist is not?

Further, given timely notification, I should certainly voluntarily undertake CPD.

Anthony James Bourke
Toowoomba, Australia

The position regarding continuing professional development for pharmacists practising overseas is mentioned in the Society section, see pp699–703. — EDITOR.

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