The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7440 p217
24 February 2007

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Rubbing salt in the wound

FrFrom Mrs M. J. Bradley, MRPharmSom

I am writing in support of Clare Mackie and her colleagues (PJ, 17 February, p190). I am also writing on my own behalf as a supplementary prescriber to ask the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to reconsider the extra fees allocated to pharmacists on the prescribing register.

I have not heard of one prescribing pharmacist who has received a pay rise as a result of their hard-won qualification, mainly undertaken in their own time. In fact, due to the vagaries of Agenda for Change, I have had a pay cut of about £144 per annum.

To ask me to pay extra on top of everything else is just rubbing salt in the wound and sometimes I wonder why I am bothering to undertake the independent prescribing conversion course in case I am asked to pay even more in the future.

Marian Bradley
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands

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