Where am I?; In the Pharmacy.
Who are you?; The new Number 2.
Who is number 1?; You are number 6.
What do you want?;..................
You mean as the responsible Pharmacist, you should be able to ask for more staff if you feel the public are at risk or conditions aren't conducive to a safe working environment? Will these not forever be looked upon as commercial, almost trivial matters by the society?
C+D video of this. Ian Facer and Rob Darracott discuss the launch of Pharmacy Voice - Chemist + Druggist
"Pharmacy" is beginning to speak with one voice but pharmacists are not. Unions (PDA and GHP) can defend us but not promote us - for that we need an effective professional body.
So far the RPS is still behaving like the old RPSGB and telling us what it thinks we should do - look at the "vote how we tell you" ballot on the new associate members. I don't care who you want as members or associates, you should be invited to voice your opinions and then the membership should decide. The RPS itself, the P.J. and the Lambeth Staff should be neutral. They concentrate on leadership when they should concentrate on winning support.
LPF meetings are held hours' journeys from where you live on dates you can't make it and deal with subjects the social cliques that run them have decided without your input and which are way down on the list of matters important to you.
If they don't stop telling us how much they have changed and how much they are doing for us (have you seen anything they've achieved yet?) and start actually representing pharmacists then next April they are history.
What can you do?
1) Post on the RPS general forum
2) E-mail Lambeth Staff at firstname.surname@rpharms.com
3) E-mail english board members at firstname.surname@englishpharmacyboard.org *
4) Write to the P.J.
(* I'm not sure about the Scottish and Welsh board members but you get the picture)
So we have Pharmacy Voice representing employers, PDA representing pharmacists. Who would ask for anything more?
johnep