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BPC
Save Our Conference Club!
From Dr M. E. King, MRPharmS
Having just returned from the British
Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester
I would like to draw the organisers’ attention to one small problem,
namely the underlying social scene that a conference of this nature deserves.
The problem arises from the “upmarketing” of the Conference
Club.
Several years ago this was a venue for the poorer members of the conference
to dance and socialise the night away and enabled them to meet other
like-minded souls from all walks of the profession (and outside). It
was a meeting place to start a night out or somewhere to regroup following
a meal with close friends. It used to be a function room in a local pub
or in the university. This year it was an empty room with no atmosphere
in one of the most expensive hotels in town with a bottle of beer costing £3.20.
My solution: find premises with a 2am licence, organise a DJ or a small
band to play, move the welcome reception there for the Sunday night so
that everyone knows where it is and let nature take its course.
Come on conference organising committee, think of the conference goer
without a company credit card and give the grass roots our social life
back. If the Royal Pharmaceutical Society is serious about getting all
sections of the profession united then what better place to start. If
something is not sorted soon I may be forced to start a campaign (SOCC,
I think).
Martin King
Cardiff
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