The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7411 p133
29 July 2006

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· The profession (2)
· Dispensing
· Medicine use reviews
· Strains and sprains
· CPPE
· Fellowship

Letters to the Editor

Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE)

Important that pharmacists can seize opportunities

From Mr M. E. James, FRPharmS

As a retired Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education tutor, I recall the annoyance with which I looked at the list of non-attenders after a CPPE meeting, and at the amount of wasted food, paper etc. We were instructed to telephone non-attenders after meetings and try to ascertain the reasons for their absence.

Sometimes there was a simple “I forgot” in which case a penalty is, in my opinion, reasonable. Sometimes, however, the reasons were more compelling: “the baby-sitter didn’t arrive” is to me an acceptable reason once, maybe twice.

However, Surinder Singh Kalsi (PJ, 15 July, p74) and Richard Rutter (PJ, 22 July, p104) seem to have good reason for their absence in my view. I am aware that opportunities such as those described by these pharmacists do arise at short notice and it is surely important to the profession that they are seized. Mr Rutter’s point about penalties being applied primarily to “serial offenders” seems to me to be a fair one.

Miall James
Colchester, Essex

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