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RPSGB member of Council Douglas Simpson shared these views with the Eastbourne branch on March 5
The proposed changes to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society will not preserve self-regulation for the pharmacy profession.
One of the things we are told by Lambeth is that the changes will preserve self-regulation. A reference to this can be found in an article on the Society's modernisation programme (The Pharmaceutical Journal, January 16, 2002 p 117-8). But whatever pharmacy will have in the future, it will not be self-regulation.
Finlay Scott (chief executive of the General Medical Council) was interviewed on Radio 4's Today programme on February 28. In an item on the possibility of the GMC facing criticism as a result of the Shipman Inquiry, Mr Scott said that what the medical profession had now was not self-regulation but "professionally-led regulation in partnership with the public".
The GMC has 40 per cent lay membership. The...