The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7487 p120
2 February 2008

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Welsh Centre for Postgraduate Pharmacy Education (WCPPE)

Maybe pharmacists are not so special

From Dr J. Pugh

Colin Ranshaw (PJ, 8 December 2007, p655) speaks of the “wrong message” being sent by appointment of a technician as director of Welsh Centre for Postgraduate Pharmacy Education. I associate “wrong message” with politicians seeking to obscure the truth — listen to the Today programme and you will see what I mean. The only relevant question is whether the best applicant got the job.

I, of course, was not involved in the selection, but would have thought that a number of pharmacists would have applied for the post and all were, therefore, considered inferior to Lesley Morgan by the interviewing panel, whose motives we have no reason to doubt.

Perhaps the disconcerting “true message” is that pharmacists are not as special as reading The Journal would have us believe.

John Pugh
Welsh School of Pharmacy
Cardiff

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