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Oversimplification of complex issues

| April 9, 2010 | 0 Comments
Oversimplification of complex issues

I read in various newspapers and websites on Wednesday that eating your five-a-day won’t protect you from getting 98% of cancers.

After trying to educate people for two of three years that eating healthily is a good idea and can prevent you from falling ill later in life,  a story like this shatters the message and is, in my view, another example of the powers-that-be trying to oversimplify a complex issue.

We all know that eating fruit and veg is a good idea but can anyone tell me what constitutes one as in, one of your five a day? Is it the weight of fruit/veg that equates to 6omg Vit C or some other figure for any other vitamin or mineral you could choose. I’ve no idea, and I’m supposedly an educated health care professional. If I don’t know, what chance the man (or woman) in the street?

Any don’t get me started on carbon and carbon alone, causing global warming …..

PL-UK achieve ISO 9001:2008 …AGAIN

| April 7, 2010 | 0 Comments
PL-UK achieve ISO 9001:2008 …AGAIN

PL-UK are delighted to announce that we have again achieved ISO 9001:2008.

ISO 9001

ISO 9001:2008 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organisation

  • needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, and
  • aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for continual improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.

So, if you work with PL-UK as either a candidate pharmacist or a client, you can be confident that you are working with one of the best in “The provision of recruitment services to the pharmacy sector”

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