| · TDM
· Work breaks
· Pfizer products
· Enhanced services
· Concordance (2)
· Small pharmacies
· Huntington's disease
· Section 60 Order
· The Society
· Technicians
Letters to the Editor
|
Section 60 Order
Allow the Society to stand or fall
From Mr D. Lee, MRPharmS
I read, with interest, David
Temple’s comments on the New Zealand
system in relation to the potential split in the UK (PJ, 18 November,
p608). One important point needs to raised.
The Pharmacy Council of New Zealand requires that pharmacists are undertaking
continuing professional development with a recognised provider. The only
provider recognised by the council is the Pharmaceutical Society of New
Zealand. In a monopoly I would consider 90 per cent a relatively low
figure. This means to me that 10 per cent of pharmacists believe that
the CPD programmes are not beneficial and believe strongly enough to
be willing to flout requirements of their annual practising certificate.
Dr Temple poses the question as to the percentage of pharmacists who
would voluntarily retain membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
should it decide to split along the same lines as the PSNZ. The answer,
in my view, is that the percentage would be low, and few would remain.
I personally would see no benefit in remaining, given the track record
of the Society.
The Society should split. Let the Society prove its worth to the members
and allow it to stand or fall on its performance.
Dan Lee
Queenstown, New Zealand
|
The
Pharmaceutical Journal