Tony

So England is closing the doors to overseas pharmacists, followed closely by
Ireland, presumably under pressure from the EU. This includes pharmacists
from Australia and New Zealand, 2 English speaking countries, which are even
members of the Commonwealth. This has been a great source of overseas
experience for New Zealand pharmacists, who are, by world standards,
extremely well qualified, having completed a 4 year Bachelor of Pharmacy
(BPharm) degree, followed by 1 year internship prior to registration. Now
if a NZ qualified pharmacist wishes to register in the UK, they need to do
ANOTHER 2 years study in the UK. What a joke. What is the UK going to do
when they don't have enough pharmacists? Thats happening now, going by the
recruitment ads in the journals and newspapers here. So much for the
Commonwealth. But then that little arrangement was effectively finished when
you stopped buing our lamb. We might as well tell your queen to go jump and
stick her commonwealth up her poncy bum. Time to become a republic.

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Tony