Why do you say that the Society cannot promote sectoral interests within pharmacy?
There is nothing to stop the Society from promoting the contribution to health made by a particular sector of the profession nor from undertaking work which is of greatest benefit in one particular sector, provided that this is in keeping with overall aims and priorities. What the Society cannot do is to promote one sector of the profession at the expense of, or in preference to, another. For example, if the Society were to be asked to describe how pharmacy could best contribute to a new health service, its response would be based on the skills, knowledge and experience that pharmacists could bring to that service, not on promoting the potential input of pharmacists in any particular sector. Other bodies exist to promote sectoral interests within pharmacy.
