The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7331 p12
1/8 January 2005

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Pharmacy in Scotland

Are there no burning issues to raise?

From Mr D. W. M. Davidson, FRPharmS

As an avid reader of the PJ, I note that only two letters have appeared from pharmacists in Scotland in the four issues from 20 November to 11 December 2004. Does this mean Scotland has no burning issues to raise or is it because the new Scottish contract is more in line with the aspirations of pharmacists in Scotland? Maybe the canny Scots, by going for a four-year phasing in of the contract north of the border, are being more realistic and so letters to the PJ will only appear after the bit-by-bit approach takes place.

Might the profession in Scotland also believe that we are drawing so far apart that the rest of pharmacy is not interested in what Scottish pharmacy is doing? Is the effect of devolution now starting to influence Scottish pharmacy to the extent that we are going off at a tangent to the rest of the UK. Is this the start of a separate Society in Scotland? Only time will tell.

D. W. M. Davidson
Blairgowrie, Perthshire

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