Tiered levels of membership needed until a good track record is established

摘要

As both a regulator and the professional body for pharmacy, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has always been unique. This dual role has been both a strength and a weakness but, with the advent of the Government's White Paper recommending the separation of the regulatory function, this paradox is to go. The current question facing members and the Council is: what are we going to be left with? There have been numerous suggestions about royal colleges, representation and trade unions. Most pharmacists associate the Society with inspectors, inspections, finger-wagging and (God forbid) the Statutory Committee. So most members do not have warm and generous feelings towards our parent body. In fact, many members have litde idea of what goes on at 1 Lambeth High Street.