Profession should invest some faith in a metamorphosis of the Society

摘要

On one level the future of the profession has been decided:the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain as we know it will be no more because there is a Government will to set up a regulatory body in the form of a General Pharmaceutical Council.There is a more nebulous aspiration to set up a body akin to a royal col-lege.This is,for now,an amorphous beast and there is a danger that it will seek to be all things to all people.There also appears to have been an unwritten assumption that the good old Society will take over the profession's representative role and form the basis of the royal college.