The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7470 p326
22 September 2007

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Letters to the Editor

Retention fees

Send cheques to protest!

From Mrs F. L. Wild, MRPharmS

While reading the comments of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Treasurer, Andrew Gush, on the cost of processing cheques for payment of the retention fee (PJ, 8 September, p256), a thought occurred.

Of the membership, 75 per cent currently pay by either direct debit or online. If these members, numbering approximately 35,300 (PJ “Workforce update”, 11 November 2006, 576-578 (PDF 80K)), decided to pay next year’s increased registration fee by cheque (at an estimated administration cost of £15 per head), this would incur increased costs to the Society of approximately £529,500.

Would this be a protest vote that the Society’s Council would listen to so that it reduces the proposed fee to an appropriate level?

Fiona Wild
Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire

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