I have just read Rob Darracott’s article on professional leadership and while I can see the need for such leadership, the real glaring omission in pharmacy's future is the leadership of pharmacists, not pharmacy. 

Pharmacists are pharmacy’s USP and there is a huge vacuum in representation and leadership to help us have our say –not contractors, not the public (politically correct as that may be) and not some academic view of what pharmacy should be. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s biggest failing is a complete lack of balls, guts – call it what you will – to actually go out to bat for its members. It has now lost so many that it no longer has any real authority to do so. 

When I heard that pharmacy “leadership” was being considered, I thought of something more akin to the BMA.
I welcome having our role developed, but there has to be some push-back against simply being loaded with more and more work with less and less support.

We continually hear pharmacy representatives moaning about community pharmacists leaving for other roles. Perhaps stronger leadership would have prevented this from happening.

– Essex pharmacist (name withheld on request)