The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 266 No 7152 p815-820
June 16, 2001

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Code of Ethics

Patients’ needs paramount

From Mr M. G. Flower, MRPharmS

The amendment to the Code of Ethics, forcing pharmacists to reveal to their employers if they have moral and/or religious objections to supplying products controlling conception and termination of pregnancy, has nothing to do with the needs of patients, which should be paramount, and everything to do with profits.

It also has nothing to do with ethics since it discriminates against a minority of pharmacists who hold strong ethical views.

Michael Flower
Church Stretton, Shropshire

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