Call to annotate Register for administrators
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Register of pharmacists should include a separate classification for administrative pharmacists, say members of the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIMp).
Roy Carrington, chief executive of AIMp, told The Journal that AIMp was
concerned about having only two categories of pharmacists on the Register — practising
and non-practising. “Members of AIMp do not feel that the two classifications
go far enough,” he said, adding that all AIMp members want to be
registered as practising pharmacists and are in favour of continuing
professional development. “However, many members think clinical
CPD is of no value to them,” he said.
“They do not want to register as non-practising since they want
to be able to give advice to colleagues, for example, about clinical
governance.
Our members are happy to say that they will not practise as a hospital
or community pharmacist. They want to be administrators and they want
the Register to reflect this.”
Mr Carrington added that, as employers, AIMp members want to be sure
that a person annotated in the Register as a practising pharmacist is
qualified to practise as a locum.
“There needs to be more annotation to the Register and appropriate
CPD allocated to the different areas of practice,” he said.
Philip Green, the Society’s deputy secretary and registrar, and
director of education and registration, said: “It is valuable to
discuss the central role of the Register and the Society will be looking
at specialisation and annotation.
“In relation to continuing professional development it is important
for members to remember that CPD should be relevant to their particular
area
of practice and therefore need not necessarily be clinical.” |
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