The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7212 p247-249
24 August 2002

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Patient packs

Has DoH joined Alice through the looking glass?

From G. A. Fox, MRPharmS

Your leading article on patient packs (PJ, 10 August, p180) certainly concurs with the responses I have had from fellow pharmacists who have read letters from myself and others on the subject this year.

Has the Department of Health finally joined Alice through the looking glass? Expecting legibility in photocopies produced using a wide range of paper quality and format, print quality, and type style and size, becomes even more ambitious when confronted with the extremely compressed and multifolded presentation required to fit into the usual tiny packs.

And to what purpose? It still does not address the advantages of whole patient pack dispensing. It seems you can always rely on some know-all in government to complicate a problem and lose all the benefits of an obvious and simple solution.

The only comments I have had from my correspondence through your columns have been extremely supportive with the sole rider that manufacturers should be encouraged to produce packs and foils based on the 28-day multiples I have always advocated.

Gerald Fox
Dunstable, Bedfordshire

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