The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7356 p18
2 July 2005

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· Annual General Meeting
· Registration
· Pharmacology
· Controlled drugs
· Technicians
· Birdsgrove House
· Registration examination
· Revalidation
· Supermarket pharmacy
· Dispensing
· New pharmacy contract
· PCTs
· The Society

Letters to the Editor

Revalidation

Case spoilt with jargon

From Mr R. Sturgess, MRPharmS

Gill Hawksworth evidently welcomes the prospect of revalidation with some relish (PJ,18 June, p761) and it is a pity that she spoils her case by resorting to jargon.
What are we to make of a portfolio pharmacist? One with a leather case under his or her arm? The bafflement increases with: “there needs to be clarity (sic) about where being a pharmacist does add value”. There is, I believe, a locative participle in Finnish, but there is no such construction, nor any meaning to it, in English.

As for the mysterious portfolio pharmacist, we are told: “the question was raised of annotation of the register which at the moment records the qualification not the competency of, for example, a prescriber”.

Revalidation has to come, but will not be received with open arms by all pharmacists, and its protagonists would be sensible to avoid the language of bureaucrats and stick to plain English.

Ray Sturgess
North Yorkshire

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