Council forced to defer decision on special 50-year retention fee

摘要

Plans to introduce a greatly reduced retention fee for non-practising pharmacists who have been on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Register for at least 50 years have been deferred.At the October Council meeting,the Council agreed not to forward the proposal to the Privy Council for approval after hearing that advisers to the Privy Council had difficulties with the proposal and had raised a number of questions.Among other things,they had advised that a reduced fee for those who have been on the register for 50 years could discriminate against certain groups of pharmacists who are not in a position to have 50 years' unbroken registration.