The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7338 p223
26 February 2005

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Society offers contract monitoring service

Primary care trusts and local health boards have been offered a pharmacy contract monitoring service by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Society chief inspector Jackie Giltrow wrote to trusts and boards last month reminding them that its inspectors had carried out compliance checks for many years to make sure that pharmacies met the requirements for the professional allowance under the current NHS pharmacy contract.

She suggested that the Society could check compliance with new contract service specifications for about £30 per pharmacy inspected.

“We have had quite a few queries from PCTs about what we can offer in terms of monitoring,” Mrs Giltrow said. “[The letter] is a toe in the water to find out if there is any demand for a future service. We will have to evaluate the demand and decide whether it is worth our while going down this route.”