The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7271 p543
18 October 2003

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Remuneration

Fixed remuneration package needed

From Mr A. Sidhu, MRPharmS

When is our profession going to move away from a profit-driven service to a patient-driven service? Community pharmacy, in general, only exists to make a profit. Why do we not get a fixed remuneration package for providing services to the community with the number of high street pharmacies allowed in one primary care trust linked to the average number of items dispensed in any given PCT area?

This way the issue of contract limitation can rectify itself by the opening of new pharmacies where needed, and each pharmacy will take a fair share of the item workload for that area. This should avoid the issue of having a number of pharmacies in one locality, with one pharmacy dispensing the majority of items.

With pharmacies dispensing the same number of items there would an equal distribution of resources and remuneration.

Amandip Sidhu
Pinner, Middlesex

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