The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7337 p206
19 February 2005

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Continuing professional development

Why cannot pharmacists receive payments?

From Mr M. G. J. Cooper, MRPharmS

Dentists can receive £860 a year for 15 hours of continuing professional development, according to John Cross (PJ, 15 January, p53). Why did not the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists not negotiate the same terms with the Government for pharmacists?
If every registered member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society was to receive an extra £860 a year income, CPD studying and the increased members’ retention fees may not have caused such uproar. Most members over 65 years of age would have been delighted.

M. G. J. Cooper
Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire

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