The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7501 p566
10 May 2008

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Lack of debate is disappointing

From Mr J. L. Turner, FRPharmS

John Rees’s perceptive article (PJ, 5 April 2008, p402) clearly explained how the profession is handicapped by the restriction on use of the title “pharmacist”. It moved the discussion on significantly from one letter (PJ, 15 March 2008, p308) and a flurry of correspondence on industrial pharmacists in January.

I regret that the article has not stimulated further correspondence in your columns or any reference that I have found in the policy statements from candidates seeking election to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council and national boards.

It cannot benefit the Society, the profession or anyone else if graduates in pharmacy who are not practising in a context where they have direct contact with the public are unable or discouraged from calling themselves pharmacists.

There are other ways of protecting the public, some of which Professor Rees discussed. Come on Council and other leaders! Show some constructive thinking on how to embrace, rather than antagonise the wider field of pharmacists.

John Turner
Lymington, Hampshire

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