The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7487 p119
2 February 2008

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Technicians

Pharmacy technicians are more than capable of undertaking a checking role

From Mr J. L. Clark, RegPharmTech

D. R. K. Brown (PJ, 19 January 2008, p51) needs to get out from behind the safety of his counter more, because it would not take him long to find an army of technicians more than capable of suitably performing a checking role.

I am full of admiration for my technician colleagues who have undertaken the checking qualification and have been made to jump hurdles to obtain it.

I hasten to add that I am not one of them as, unlike Mr Brown, I personally could not think of anything more soul destroying than checking someone else’s work all day, however important a role it is, and especially if I had a lot of clinical knowledge that could be put to better use.

John Clark
Barnstaple, Devon

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