The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7426 p574
11 November 2006

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· Safety (2)
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· The profession (4)
· The Council
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· Retention fee
· Section 60 Order
· The Society
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Retention fee

Being deprived

From Mr W. B. Rhodes, FRPharmS

So we have had a diverting exchange of compliments between Ian Caldwell and Bill Brookes on the question of fees and whether or not old codgers like them should remain on the Register (PJ, 14 October, p450).

Whatever they or the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council say, the effect of increasing the fees for non-practising and older members of the profession has resulted in our being deprived of the company of many who have given a lifetime of service and, in many cases, continue to uphold the dignity of the profession in the eyes of the public, and we collectively are the worse for it. With sadness at the end of the year I will join those who have left simply because the current situation is wrong, uncharitable and unworthy of a so-called caring profession.

The Council’s arguments “cannot really be argued persuasively” and there will be those no longer in employment who will have time to reason the relevance of the appropriate acronym.

Bruce Rhodes
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

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