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A nonsense of the whole thing …
From Mr W. B. Rhodes, FRPharmS
I am surprised that Stephen
Axon (PJ, 12 March, p300), with his legal
training, should have the effrontery to delete the whole declaration
relating to his supposed non-practising status from his annual retention
fee form and expect to remain on the Register.
I being of a more timid disposition only deleted the section to which
I took particular exception and I know of others who similarly deleted
phrases, albeit not the same as mine. So far as I am aware my application
was accepted, although the letter I received simply stated that I had “tendered
my fee” not that it had been accepted, but as I have not received
the statutory notice I presume I am still on the Register.
If the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has accepted a variety of declarations,
or in the case of Stephen Axon none at all, this makes a nonsense of
the whole thing. It follows that we should know just what our status
is and the declaration be sensibly redrafted allowing the opportunity
for those who felt that they could not in all conscience remain on the
Register with such restrictions to return to the fold.
Bruce Rhodes
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
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ANN LEWIS, Secretary and Registrar, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, states:
The retention fee cycle for 2005 will be completed on the 5 April.
At that time the Society will examine all circumstances in which declaration
requirements have not been fulfilled and decisions will be taken as
to
appropriate next steps. Individuals who have failed to comply with
the declaration requirements will be contacted at the earliest opportunity
after the retention fee cycle completion date. |
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