The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7362 p193
13 August 2005

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· Antibiotic resistance
· Registration examination
· Registration
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· Hospital disinfection
· Reciprocity (2)
· National boards
· Regulation of medicines
· Hospital pharmacy (2)
· New oxygen contract

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Registration

An invidious position

From Miss K. S. Ginsbury, MRPharmS

In your editorial (PJ, 23 July, p102) you wrote about a brave doctor “who admitted that he had not been in practice for some years and was no longer registered with the General Medical Council” but who “rolled up his sleeves and went to help the injured” during the recent London bombings. Apparently he was able to provide top class first aid (in itself a shocking revelation, since having retired from the register it is almost certain that he no longer does continuing professional development).

I hope that the GMC is taking regulatory action against this most reprehensible individual, who, apparently valuing human life over and above the GMC regulations, had the nerve to assist people in trouble. I am certain that no non-practising pharmacist would ever put themselves in such an invidious position. In short, maybe our Council, the GMC and the Government of Britain should be a little more careful of what they wish for. They may just get it and the price may be too high to pay.

Karen Ginsbury
Israel

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