423 struck off for non-payment of retention fee
The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has instructed the Registrar to remove the names of 393 pharmacists from the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists and 30 pharmacy technicians from the Society's voluntary Register of Pharmacy Technicians for failing to pay their retention fees for 2007 (Official
Notice, p409-411).
At the March Council
meeting, the Council was reminded that the fees
had been due by 1 January. A statutory demand for payment had been issued
to pharmacists for whom a fee payment had not been received and the statutory
demand notice period expired on 24 March. Pharmacy technicians who had
not paid their fee by 1 February had been sent a letter advising them
that, if payment was not received by 23 March, the Council would be asked
what action should be taken, which could include removing their names
from the register.
Asked how the figures compared with previous years, the head of registration,
Andrew Gardner, said that 584 pharmacists had been removed from the Register
for non-payment in 2006 and 875 in 2005.
Giving a breakdown of the 2007 pharmacist erasures. Mr Gardner said that
20 per cent were non-practising pharmacists in Britain, 28 per cent were
overseas, per cent were practising and 12 per cent were new registrants.
Half those on the list had overseas addresses. About 57 per cent were
women. The list also included one or two designated fellows of the Society.
Mr Gardner added that the non-paying pharmacy technicians should have
been removed on 1 January under the protocol for the registration of
pharmacy technicians. They had been allowed to remain registered because
of the Council’s stated policy of bringing the two fee processes
into line.
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