Medicines Management
Issue no 3, p1-4
May/June 2002

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Name change?

Pharmacists have rejected a call to change their name to pharmacotherapists if they offer pharmaceutical care or medicines management services.

New Zealand pharmacist John Dunlop suggested the move in an article on the web site, www.managingmedicines.com.

But community pharmacists have said they would prefer not to change their name. London-based community pharmacist Riaz Esmail said: "I don't believe that the best way to bring about a change of perception is by changing title ... let's make community pharmacist an international title and standard, and let the world know it."