The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7236 p215
15 February 2003

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End of month deadline set for written comments

A deadline of 28 February has been set by the Department of Health for interested parties to send written comments on the Office of Fair Trading's pharmacy report for consideration in the Department's response.

The Department has set itself a deadline of 90 days from publication of the OFT report — until 17 April — for its response to be made to the OFT.

Amid rumours that the response is to be made somewhat earlier because of forthcoming elections to the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, a Department spokesman said: "We are sticking to the 90 days consultation period, give or take one or two days either side. We have spoken to a huge number of stakeholders and different groups, from supermarkets to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society."

He added that the February 28 deadline was for written submissions because the Department could not turn round written submissions that were made close to the end of the 90-day response period.

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