The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7354 p760
18 June 2005

This article
Reprint   Photocopy

PDF 80K, Acrobat Reader

· CPD
· CPPE
· Reciprocity
· Prescribing
· The Society
· Technicians

Letters to the Editor

The Society

Read the Charter

From Mr D. Simpson, FRPharmS

Christine Glover, in a typically dogmatic valedictory address, claims that the Council is not there to promote the interests of members (PJ, 11 June, p716). She might like to re-examine the Charter, where object 2 reads “to safeguard, maintain the honour, and promote the interests of pharmacists in their exercise of the profession of pharmacy”. I raise this because Mrs Glover promises to hold the new Council publicly to account, and I would not want her to be barking up the wrong tree.

Incidentally, Gill Hawksworth, in her self-justifying valedictory address, is under a misapprehension when she talks about the preservation of self-regulation, for which she and her “brave colleagues” fought (ibid).

What we now have, through the greater number of lay members on the Council plus two technicians, is “professionally led regulation in partnership with the public”. These words are not mine, but those of the General Medical Council’s chief executive Finlay Scott. He was talking about the GMC, however, what he said applies equally to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Douglas Simpson
Member of Council,
Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Send your letter to The Editor

Previous Topic (Prescribing)
Next Topic (Technicians)