The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7329 p854
11 December 2004

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· New contract (5)
· PPRS
· Registration exam (4)
· Prescription forms
· Community pharmacy
· Male health
· Competency
· Public health
· Alcohol
· Levithyroxine
· Complementary medicine
· The register (3)
· Retention fee
· The Journal (2)

Letters to the Editor

Retention fee

No virtue in getting old

From Miss E. A. Mishon, MRPharmS

We have heard a lot recently from retired pharmacists in protest over the new retention fee (PJ, 27 November, p784 and PJ, 4 December, p816). Like these pharmacists I am also retired but, unlike them, I do not feel I am entitled to special treatment: there is no virtue in getting old and age does not confer wisdom. On the contrary some elderly pharmacists become a liability, and there must be a cut-off point. We have all been able to raise our children and pay for our homes because of our professional activities. We all contributed in some way to what we believed was important. Some of us sat on local committees and some did not.

I decided early on that because the leadership that I needed was not forthcoming, I had to cultivate my own kind of professionalism.

For those people who feel they contributed — OK, fine — maybe they did: but in that case why are we in the present situation? It seems to me that none of us contributed enough. We now have a new young Council, let us see what they can do.

Anne Mishon
Laurac Le Grande, France

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