The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7339 p262
5 March 2005

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Disability provision in pharmacy services must be on a case-by-case basis

The level of “reasonable adjustment” necessary to enable someone with a disability to use a pharmacy service must be made on a individual basis, Sue Sharpe, chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, said at the local pharmaceutical committees’ conference.

This was the reason the Department of Health had decided to base disability support on an allowance, rather than a fee for service basis, Mrs Sharpe explained.

“In determining what is reasonable, consideration needs to be given to the individual circumstances of the patient and the pharmacy, and a judgement made by the service provider. As such, it is not appropriate to determine and specify the nature of ‘reasonable adjustment’ nationally, nor to set different types of intervention or fee,” she said.