The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7439 p189
17 February 2007

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Letters to the Editor

Northern Ireland

All-Ireland rather than UK relationship may be better for PSNI?

From Dr B. P. Leddy, MPSI, MRPharmS

I would like to reply to Stephen Montgomery’s letter about the future of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PJ, 3 February, p133).

Speaking from a Republic of Ireland perspective, it seems to me that he has a somewhat blinkered view of how pharmacy on the island of Ireland could be organised in the future.

The Good Friday Agreement introduced the concept of parity of esteem into Northern Ireland, which previously did not exist. I would like to see much closer links between the PSNI and the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, and the development of either cross-border or all-Ireland initiatives, which may include a formal relationship between pharmacists in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland.

We have cordial and friendly relations with our northern counterparts, who might be better served in a north-south relationship than an east-west arrangement.

Bernard Leddy
Lismore, Co Waterford, Ireland

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