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Re: RPSGB Fees 2008 £395
Originally posted by ferretmanabu View PostCall me cynical but I think this was perhaps the intention all along. Tell us that they're thinking of charging near 500 to shock and then charge 400 so it doesn't seem so bad. The actual increase is still a despicable amount.47 BC : Julius Cesar : Veni Vidi Vici : I came, I saw I conquered.
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Was flabbergasted that there were only two letters about this outrageous increase in last week's PJ. Apparently the £395 is double what we paid (in real terms) in 2001. It's about time someone really looked at our finances and how they are being spent.
Also, those of you whose employer picks up the tab - remember that this may not always be the case. In ten, twenty, thirty years you'll be propping up a poor pension with a couple of locums a week and working until July to pay Mr Darling AND Mr Gush! Staged payments - beware! It may rise to £125 a quarter...
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Originally posted by shaggy-dog View PostWas flabbergasted that there were only two letters about this outrageous increase in last week's PJ. Apparently the £395 is double what we paid (in real terms) in 2001. It's about time someone really looked at our finances and how they are being spent.
Also, those of you whose employer picks up the tab - remember that this may not always be the case. In ten, twenty, thirty years you'll be propping up a poor pension with a couple of locums a week and working until July to pay Mr Darling AND Mr Gush! Staged payments - beware! It may rise to £125 a quarter...
I'm not surprised they only printed two letters - makes it look like most people are ok with it. How many people signed that on-line petition in the end?Lively debate is encouraged but please respect the opinions and feelings of others.
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After the General Pharmaceutical Council is formed to regulate pharmacists the remaining representative RPSGB rump will presumably become voluntary.?
One wonders how many will freely cough up after fee increases like this.?
I happen to think that this rump should be liquidated and a totally new and truly representative organisation for pharmacists should be established to replace it. In my opinion the RPSGB has failed miserably in its representative role
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Originally posted by ymdawd View PostAfter the General Pharmaceutical Council is formed to regulate pharmacists the remaining representative RPSGB rump will presumably become voluntary.?
One wonders how many will freely cough up after fee increases like this.?
I happen to think that this rump should be liquidated and a totally new and truly representative organisation for pharmacists should be established to replace it. In my opinion the RPSGB has failed miserably in its representative roleLively debate is encouraged but please respect the opinions and feelings of others.
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Possibly the PDA, who knows.? All I want is an organisation that looks after our interests, someone in our corner for a change.
The only thing Lambeth has looked after is its own interests. Why should I be forced to contribute to their over-inflated pension funds.? Who is going to contribute to the pensions of rank and file pharmacists.? Yes. Nobody.!
No wonder so many in the RPSGB membership are disillusioned.
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I'm hoping that with regulatory matters stripped from it Lambeth may learn to look after pharmacists.
Look at what has happened since this split was foisted on us.
Open days at Lambeth, personal emails from Mr Patel.
I know they shot themselves in the b*ll*cks with this retention fee debacle but maybe it would be worth listening to Lambeth, if that's where the new body stays, for a little while.
They're not all completely brainlesss up there.
(When I say Lambeth I mean RPSGB council and employees, not other wonderful elected bodies!)
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It is often said that there is nothing like an imminent execution to concentrate the mind of the " condemmed ".
So it is with the RPSGB which has suddenly realised that with no compulsory membership base its future viability may well be in doubt. Will the apathetic majority (approx. 80% ) continue to support ( albeit by default ) an organisation that has acted so arrogantly, when they have a choice whether or not to join it.? No I think not.
It begs the question " What would be a suitable replacement for the representative side of the RPSGB.? " , one which the vast majority of pharmacists would WANT to join.
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<<Answer: THE PDA.
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Having just recently joined the PDA after much deliberation it does seem the logical choice.
At least it will not be quite so ready to prosecute its members, something for which the RPSGB may well rue the day.
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Having just recently joined the PDA after much deliberation it does seem the logical choice.
If you make an error (etc etc) and your employer won't support you, you are on your own, completely. The NPA helps pharmacies, not pharmacists. I'm just wondering what people not in the PDA are getting instead.
At least it will not be quite so ready to prosecute its members, something for which the RPSGB may well rue the day.
Whenever I pay my annual fees, I feel like I am funding the Gestapo.........Lively debate is encouraged but please respect the opinions and feelings of others.
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