The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7314 p288
28 August 2004

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· Retention fee
· Personal control
· Shipman inquiry
· BNF-C
· TCM
· Counselling
· Publishing board
· Overseas membership
· Brewers' yeast
· Bullying

Letters to the Editor

Bullying

Surprised statement on bullying was lacking

From Mrs H. V. Stewart, MRPharmS

I was pleased to read your report (PJ, 14 August, p239) on the Council’s decision to incorporate a statement on harassment and bullying into the Council Governance Handbook and the Society’s Employee Handbook, but equally surprised to realise that such a statement was currently lacking.

The statement adds: “The Society will not tolerate any harassment, bullying or victimisation.” Has this not always been the case? The insidious and heinous act of bullying must be quashed, particularly so since the victims are usually unable to defend themselves.

Let us hope that our profession is at last taking effective measures to ensure that it has a powerful system in operation, able to identify, expose and deal with bullying — both external and within.

Let us also hope that all previous and present occurrences of harassment and bullying have been detected and dealt with in a fair, correct, open, and timeous manner.

H. V. Stewart
Lochearnhead, Perthshire

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