Pharmacy in the UK.

One of the comments on one of the posts below got me thinking about how pharmacy in the UK could be improved. Here's some ideas.

1) It should be illegal to sell homeopathic "medicine" in a pharmacy. You can either be a pharmacist, or a fucking woo-merchant. Not both. In other words, if you want to sell homeopathy, don't hide behind the respectability that the title "Pharmacist" gives you. Renounce it, and go and take up with the clairvoyants.

2) Do what they do down here-pharmacists aren't allowed to own more than five stores. Also, pharmacists have to own 51% of the business.*

3) For the love of Dawkins, do something with Jeremy Holmes. Put him out to seed, sack him, send him off on a fact-finding mission to Georgia, it doesn't really matter what. Why an unelected, jumped-up little arts graduate twerp has such an influence on what used to be a glorious profession is beyond me. His sole acheivement so far is producing a pathetic little monthly puff-piece about HOW WONDERFUL THE SOCIETY IS. Also, he doesn't have an opinion on homeopathy either. Mind, arts graduates are probably too thick to understand how it's a load of bollocks.

3) One pharmacist, one pharmacy. Unless it's a busy pharmacy, in which case more than one may be needed. Bollocks to this running around pretending to be doctors business. If I wanted to be a doctor, I'd have gone to medical school. If there's no pharmacist, then the pharmacy does not open. Sweet as, bro.

4) Owner's responsibility to provide adequate amounts of adequately trained staff. If this was implemented properly, Lloyd's would probably go out of existence. Hurrah!

5) Exile all the supporters of remote supervision to some remote, godforsaken, wind-blasted hellhole where they can reflect on being a bunch of backstabbing treacherous cunts. I suggest that we house them in Gorleston.

6) Send whichever dickhead came up with the bright idea of the open-plan dispensary to a gulag in Siberia. Contrary to popular belief, the job is not just about sticking labels on boxes. Sometimes, we have to use our brain, and it's not much fun having some twat yelling "THOSE AREN'T MINE", when you're trying to sort out someone else's problem.

7) No more pharmacies in supermarkets.

8) Get rid of Andrew Gush, make him apologise for being completely out of his depth, and not having the guts to admit it, and bring in someone who knows what they're doing. And make him turn up for his locum work as well.

9) Get as many pharmacists as possible to join the PDA

10) Pharmacist editor of the PJ, please. Because at the moment it seems nothing more than a propaganda rag issued from the Society.

Anyone got any more ideas?

* I'm a bit hazy on this, but I figure that as I'm not working in retail (HALLELUJAH!!) I don't have to worry about it. It's broadly correct anyway, though I'm not quite sure how it relates to The Warehouse pharmacies.