Experience no longer counts

摘要

Many experienced and long serving members have faced the dilemma of not wishing to conform to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's new recording system for continuing professional development and yet not being able to accept the terms of the declaration required to become a non-practising member.There is nothing new in the concept of CPD and most members have been voluntarily practising CPD in their own area of specialisation.What is new is that CPD is now mandatory and that the Society requires recorded evidence.