The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7280 p841
20/27 December 2003

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Letters to the Editor

Fellowships

Where are the community pharmacist fellows?

From Mr M. Goldin, MRPharmS

I want to congratulate the nine pharmacists who have been designated as fellows of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (PJ, 6 December, p794).

Their elevation will give great pleasure and satisfaction to their families. But I must say that I was dumb-struck when I read about them. Not one community pharmacist among them. All academics and bureaucrats.

Are there no community pharmacists in this year of 2003 worthy of such an honour?

What message does that give to all those thousands of ordinary community pharmacists toiling away at the coal face of our NHS pharmacy service.

The help, advice, care, patience and restraint shown by this faceless mass of dedicated professionals who day after day, week after week, and year after year, give their all to try to ensure that the public is adequately served.

As an itinerant locum pharmacist I do not know any established, settled community pharmacists, but there must be some of my colleagues out there who know someone deserving of this honour.

Monty Goldin
London NW11

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