The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7269 p446
4 October 2003

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Community pharmacy

Lifestyle checks are not our job

From Miss C. M. Martin, MRPharmS

On reading about the new coronary heart disease service to be offered by Boots The Chemists (PJ, 20 September, p361), I had to make my views known.

If pharmacists took charge of repeat dispensing, this would free a large amount of time at GP practices, allowing nurses to carry out lifestyle checks — their job, not ours.

Our job is in the dispensary making sure that patients get the correct medicines regularly and informing GPs of compliance and medication problems.

What is worse is that Boots is offering the service free of charge, just like compliance aids, a service which really does benefit the patient and which now ends up not being offered by others because funding cannot be obtained.

Caroline Martin
Bradford

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