Clive Jackson's thoughtful contribution to the "Pharmacy 2020" debate (PJ,29 September,p365) and your editorial (ibid p338) raises the issue of schism in the profession when he states "the conditions where permanent fissures (as opposed to divergence) in the profession might occur ...".He goes on to say that the risk of a fundamental split will "boil down to the number of pharmacists who become clinical modernists compared with those who remain dispensing traditionalists".I can only agree wholeheartedly having espoused a similar viewpoint both publicly and privately for some time.My concern is that the profession in Britain has been sleepwalking into schism without a debate on the social and professional consequences.
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