The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7322 p598
23 October 2004

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Personal control

But what do the words mean?

From Dr I. ab I. Davies, MRPharmS

There is only one response to David Pruce’s contrived reply to Ruth Shaw’s letter (PJ, 18 September, p380) regarding the status of a “non-practising pharmacist” and it is to be found in the words of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England from 1529 to 1532, to his daughter in the play “A man for all seasons” by Robert Bolt: “But what do the words say?”

The first sentence of the paragraph headed “What does non-practising mean?” in a letter from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Education and Registration Directorate dated 10 September states: “A non-practising pharmacist is not involved in patient care and does not work in or give advice in relation to the science of medicines or the practice of pharmacy or health care.” It is this statement, and this statement only, that is legally binding.

I. ab I. Davies
Co Down, Northern Ireland

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