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Letters to the Editor
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The Society
Our Registrar should be on our Register
From Mr J. E. Balmford, FRPharmS
Probably along with many other members I could not believe my eyes when
I read the advertisement on pA19 of The Journal of 31 March. I might
have understood it if The Journal had borne the date 1 April.
To advertise for a chief executive officer at this time, at a six-figure
salary, not specifying a pharmacist and having no indication that the
post would be of limited duration, is absolute madness. If the person
is to act as Registrar of our Royal Pharmaceutical Society, then that
person must be on our Register.
I must commend the letter from Ian
Caldwell, in the same issue of The
Journal (p366), for setting out the position in which we find ourselves
with the retirement of Ann Lewis in the autumn. When the split comes,
as it surely will, then we, as the Society, will not require such a high
powered person to run the new organisation and, therefore, the contract
we offer must be limited.
The idea of a General Pharmaceutical Council seeking some of the Society’s
assets when the split comes must be resisted at all costs. Our forebears,
by good housekeeping, enabled us to have these possessions and they belong
to the members.
I am also concerned that the Carter Working Party consists heavily of
people from the Department of Health and that the Government will push
through all that it wants regardless of the views of pharmacists.
John E. Balmford
Past President and Past Honorary Auditor
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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Pharmaceutical Journal