BPSA prepares response to consultation on draft Pharmacists and Pharmacy
Technicians Order
The British Pharmaceutical Students Association has begun preparing a response to the Department of Health consultation on the draft Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order under Section 60 of the Health Act 1999.
The response is being prepared by the BPSA executive, taking into account
all views and opinions submitted by members following consideration of
the draft Order at the recent BPSA
annual conference in Bradford (PJ,
29 April, p507). Delegates received a presentation on the draft Section
60 Order and each delegate was given a copy of the four-page overview
of the Order that was published as a centre pull-out in The Pharmaceutical
Journal of 1 April (PDF 70K).
The association, which is the official student section of the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society, urged all its members to feed in their views to help shape a
response, believeing that it is imperative that pharmacy students, as
the future of the profession, participate in the consultation.
The specific issue of whether the link between registration as a pharmacist
and membership of the Society should be removed from the draft Order
was considered at the BPSA conference as a debate on a motion to the
effect that the link should remain unchanged. Although there was sympathy
for the motion, delegates agreed that it was unwise to reject change
completely at this stage without having suitable insight about the implications
of change. As a result, most delegates abstained from the vote.
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