The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7236 p225
15 February 2003

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Supermarket pharmacy

Equal treatment

From Mr B. Shooter, MRPharmS

Owners of supermarkets consistently take advantage of the regulations that allow them to register with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society only that part of their premises that they wish to designate as a pharmacy. Other owners of pharmacy premises invariably register the whole of their premises as pharmacies.

By not registering the whole store, supermarket owners must cause their pharmacist employees many professional paradoxes.

The privilege of owning a pharmacy is accompanied by professional responsibility except in the case of supermarkets where pharmacies share premises from which ethically unacceptable products are sold.

With the probability of an increase in the number of supermarket pharmacies it would seem only fair and reasonably simple for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to treat all premises registrations on the same practical basis from now on.

Barry Shooter
Romford, Essex

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