The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7315 p312-315
4 September 2004

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Letters to the Editor

Personal control

Scrap supervision altogether!

From R. B. Chatterton, MRPharmS

I was pleased to see the letter from Gordon Appelbe about personal control (PJ, 28August, p286), particularly the last paragraph putting forward the thought of changing the Medicines Act.

What I would propose is to scrap supervision altogether, as in most doctors’ dispensaries. I would suggest that personal control be given priority and that the statement that there should be a pharmacist in personal control be more exactly defined. This, after all, is the difference between the pharmacy the drug store and garage forecourt, etc, where medicines are sold.

If there is not a pharmacist in personal control who can (if requested) be asked about medicines, then supplies of these should cease in the pharmacy. However, there would be no need for direct supervision. The protocol was a good idea and could be used as a basis, but the charade of supervision (as in my opinion it has now become) could be scrapped.

R. B. Chatterton
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire

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