The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7268 p405
27 September 2003

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Letters to the Editor

The Society

A Council that claims to be listening

From Mr M. R. Hickey, MRPharmS

I was interested to read your editorial “No excuses left” (PJ, 23 August, p224). In fact I cannot remember when I last so agreed with much of a PJ editorial. It is a relief, to say the least, that someone in Lambeth recognises that pharmacy in Wales and Scotland are developing differently from in England. You quite correctly state that “The Society has a real opportunity ... to determine what structures it will put in place to support professional matters. Input from Scotland and Wales needs to be there from day one, as of right ...”.

This year the Scottish and Welsh members voted unanimously at their respective AGMs to have more power over their own affairs, powers allowing their elected Executives to make policy relating to pharmacy and health policy in regard to their own legislatures. A sensible solution would be to decentralise power, to adopt a federal structure in which the various elected Society bodies are treated as equals.

Our Council claims to be listening; however, as evidenced by the membership’s opposition to the draft new Charter, it appears to be blind to the opportunity.

Maurice Hickey
Forres, Morayshire

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