Will announcements be made before recess?
Four decisions of significance to pharmacy remain to be announced as Parliament prepares to rise for the summer recess on 22 July.
The Journal understands that an announcement on control
of entry to pharmacy
contracts is most likely to appear. Proposals were put forward last year
(PJ, 26 July 2003, p105).
However, the most important of these
decisions, the new community pharmacy contract for England and Wales,
will not be squeezed into the last week of Parliamentary business because
protracted negotiations are outstanding (PJ, 22 May, p629). Inextricably
linked, so also unlikely to be announced, is future arrangements for
supplying generic medicines (PJ, 6 September 2003, p295).
Also outstanding, as The Journal went to press, is a final decision on
breaking the complex monopoly over supplies of veterinary medicines (PJ,
19 April 2003, p534). |
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