The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7451 p552
12 May 2007

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The Society

Well done — at last!

From Mr A. R. White, MRPharmS

I have to admit that I have, in the past, had severe doubts as to whether our editor (as a non-pharmacist) has really understood what drives pharmacists, what pharmacy is about and what the Royal Pharmaceutical Society was created for.

I am glad to say that her leading article (PJ, 5 May, p512) shows that she has got there, at last! I am quite sure that the Government and, in particular, Lord Hunt have no idea what they are doing and that if they continue in this fashion it will lead to the ruin of pharmacy. However, unlike Miss Timbs, I believe the same applies to the NHS chief pharmaceutical officers.

Sadly I have to admit that my only consolation is that, as I am now beyond the official age of retirement, I will not be working as a pharmacist by the time the ruination has been completed. But I do echo Miss Timbs’s words “Let the Society be preserved” and in substantially its present form (warts and all).

Perhaps someone might show Lord Hunt a copy of the editorial.

Alan White
Gravesend, Kent

Let's save it

From Mr D. I. M. Simpson, FRPharmS

As a Council member elected on the Save our Society ticket, I was pleased to see the headline to your leading article last week: “Let the Society be preserved” (PJ, 5 May, p512).

The consistent success of SoS candidates in Council elections in recent years would suggest that there are a great many members who agree with this sentiment.

Douglas Simpson
Member of the Council
Royal Pharmaceutical Society

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