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Old 10th, March 2007, 11:35 PM
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Default Re: Statt Comm - more levels of discipline needed?

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Why do we only seem to have three possible Stattutory Committee decisions, i.e. nothing, reprimand or striking off? We could have a range of periods of suspension for example, or supervised periods of work, re-training etc etc etc.
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"At last the Government has come clean and explicitly said that the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain — which has served the pharmacy profession well or well enough for nearly 170 years — is no longer fit for purpose."

Regulation as practiced by the RPSGB equates to punishment. It is not capable of representing pharmacists because it is not a trade union, and it's too scared to sugest that the investment made by the taxpayer in the education and training of pharmacists should be protected where possible.

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