The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7389 p234
25 February 2006

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· Oxygen supplies (5)
· Community pharmacy
· Vitamin D
· Care homes
· Boots/UniChem merger
· Locum pharmacy
· Assisted dying
· Methadone
· Statins
· CPD
· Criminal convictions
· Overseas pharmacists
· National boards

Letters to the Editor

National boards

Primary care pharmacists ignored?

From Dr B. Curwain, MRPharmS

I believe that the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s English National Board is to have representatives from community, hospital, industrial and academic pharmacy. There are over 1,600 pharmacists on the National Prescribing Centre’s mailing list and the total workforce in the primary care area is now almost certainly over 2,000. These are active, innovative, pioneering pharmacists who clearly deserve representation. Why does the Society ignore us?

What is more, our jobs require that we maintain our registration and thus we are actively practising. This is not the case for many who work in academia or industry.

Brian Curwain
Chief Pharmacist
New Forest Primary Care Trust

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