How many pharmacists is too many?

摘要

HOW secure do you feel in your choice of career? Do you think you would easily get a new job if you left, or lost, your current one? Does pharmacy still seem like an attractive pursuit for those entering the profession? The spectre of a crisis in pharmacist numbers — too many graduates, that is — has been growing steadily, as news and letters in The Journal would testify. Pharmacists are worried. Indeed, workforce concerns were prominent in the latest Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership survey, which took place earlier in the summer.