No Longer voices in the wilderness

One of the good things about my job is that I am in touch with more pharmacists in a day than most other people. If you act as a manager, owner or locum, you probably are the only pharmacist in a premises and don't get chance to exchange views or opinions and I know that many people feel that they are lone evoices in the wilderness, ignored and disregarded by the powers that be, unless they are unfortunate enough to fall foul of the regulations for some reason, RP being the most recent one to have caused massive confusion and anxiety. Many people have privately expressed the feeling that if they could find a job that kept them and their families in the same degree of financial stability and comfort that they currently experience, they would almost certainly take it. What a sad state of affairs that we have come to this.

Words often mean more when we know the people who speak them, and when their opinions strike a resonant chord with us. Two examples I can quote from people whom I know and who have put their words on record recently with regard to RP. Richard Rutter and Dorothy Drury have left comments on the PJonline for all to see.

http://www.pjonline.com/news/rp_regulations_should_be_applied_flexibly_says_doh

Please look at these and see if they make sense to you. Perhaps those who drafted the RP regulations and pressed for their implementation should have consulted the likes of pharmacist such as Mrs. Drury and Mr. Rutter, and thousands like them. It would surely have led to a better scenario than the risk of a criminal prosecution for such heinous acts of misconduct, such as forgetting to log out at the end of the day.

We hope to quickly establish a specific forum on this issue with an input from someone who has access to the powers that got us into this mess. Keep checking back to the main web site and join the debate. People often complain that they are ignored and that they have no voice - we aim to help remedy that, but it will take your contribution to achieve it. Don't settle for being a silent majority of one any longer: your opinion matters and can help to change things for the better.