LPC criticised in health authority report
North East London Local Pharmaceutical Committee has been criticised
for procedural irregularities in a review commissioned by North East
London Strategic Health Authority.
The review was carried out following complaints from 87 of the 352
contractors that the LPC represents. It found a series of irregularities
by the LPC
over recent years. These included failure to produce annual reports
and hold annual general meetings, failure to send accounts to contractors
and failure to pass payments collected from contractors to the Pharmaceutical
Services Negotiating Committee. The LPC also failed to seek guidance
from, or report to, the PSNC on local negotiations. Its constitution
required it to do all these things.
In addition, the review found that three of the seven primary care
trusts with which the LPC works do not consider it to be representative
of their
contractors.The LPC has acted to rectify some of its failures, but
disputes the overall tone of the report.
It says that the failure of the report to include its responses to
the allegations and findings means that the report gives only a partial
view,
conveys a misleading impression and is fundamentally flawed.
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