From Mrs D. Drury, MRPharmS
SIR,—With respect to the case currently being heard in the Restrictive
Practices Court, the question should not have arisen. Medicines should only
be sold through registered pharmacies by staff under the supervision of a pharmacist.
If drugs are regarded as general sales, then their sale is no different from
buying a bag of flour.
We, for our part, would then be encouraged to sell only health related products
and create a more clinical and professional atmosphere. Is a medicines course
to now be compulsory for some of the local garages and haberdashers that were
last month selling St John’s wort three for the price of two?
Pharmacists now have an edictum stupidus which may well lead us to an annus
horribilis.
Dorothy Drury
Bridlington,
York