The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 267 No 7178 849-854
15 December 2001

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Community pharmacy

Laws should be changed

From Mr K. R. Nathwani, MRPharmS

It is sad and disgraceful the way pharmacists are treated with all the recent cutbacks. I come home each day exhausted from the huge number of responsibilities I have every day, from dispensing to counter prescribing, deliveries, helping customers, running a business safely etc. I strongly believe that technicians should take over the dispensary and the sale of pharmacy medicines as well as counter-prescribing, since it is simply not economic for a pharmacist to carry out these functions. Laws should be changed to exempt pharmacists from these duties, ie, supervision and staying on the premises, so that their time and energy can be spent in areas that are rewarding and which enable them to have a better, less stressful standard of living. A degree in pharmacy is nothing to this Government. Let us face it: who wants to take all this extra burden for "free"?

Unfortunately pharmacists are not represented by powerful bodies with the "muscle power" to do something about it, unlike other professions — disappointingly.

K. Nathwani
Hertford

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