CCA And AIMP Response To The Report Of The Independent Inquiry Into A Professional Body For Pharmacy
April 9, 2008
Commenting on the Report of The Clarke Inquiry into a future professional body for pharmacy, released last week, CCA & AIMp Ltd Chief Executive Rob Darracott, said:
“CCA and AIMp welcome this Report. Against what must have been a very difficult timescale, Nigel Clarke and his Inquiry Team must be congratulated for having consulted widely and thought deeply to produce a comprehensive and dispassionate document, which contains much food for thought for the profession and the wider pharmacy world. The blueprint for a new professional body for pharmacy is here, and it’s up to pharmacy and pharmacists now to shape how they want a new professional body to look.
“We are, of course, delighted that Nigel has chosen to use various elements of our evidence to support specific recommendations. A professional body that is unencumbered by the burdens of regulation must be about strategic leadership - aspirational, innovative and developmental - and we are pleased the Report has picked up on our promotion of the concept of ‘professional socialisation’ by which a professional body welcomes and nurtures new members as they join a profession. We therefore wholeheartedly endorse the emphasis within the Report that sees support for the individual practitioner in the practice of their profession, from first day student to final day retiree, as the lifeblood of any new organisation. We fully support Nigel’s recommendations that any new body should have mechanisms for involving technicians and, particularly, colleagues from other scientific disciplines whose work within the pharmaceutical sciences provides the foundation of the profession.
“We have noted the Report’s recommendation for the convening of a transitional committee charged with overseeing the next stage of preparing for a new body, comprised of representatives of those bodies who see themselves as integral to the new professional body or working closely with it. As one of the stakeholders specifically mentioned we would, of course, be happy to be invited to contribute in any way we can.”
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