Society may charge PCTs for fitness checks
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society may consider charging primary care trusts for checking the fitness to practise of pharmacists applying to join pharmaceutical services supplementary lists.
In its comments (PDF 100K) on “Modernising the regulation of primary
care — NHS
(Pharmaceutical Services Supplementary List) regulations 2005”,
The Society says that PCTs need to be provided with advice on how deep
the fitness-to-practise check needs to go. “This should be given
careful consideration in order to minimise the impact on the Societ.
Alternatively, the Society will need to give consideration to charging
a fee for requests made,” it adds.
The Society is also warning that investigation of serious fitness-to-practise
issues by PCTs and the Society may lead to a duplication of effort. “It
is therefore important that PCTs are permitted to place reliance on the
Society’s regulatory role in the most serious cases,” it
says.
Concerns have also been raised about the absence of any provision in
the draft regulations for pharmacists who work in more than one PCT area
to register in a home PCT or for pharmacists to work in more than one
home country without incurring an administrative burden.
The Society warns, too, that the omission of ill health from the list
of impairments to practise is a serious omission and that the regulations
need to be clear that they define a pharmacist as someone on the practising
register.
Regulatory framework
review Regulation and inspection in health
and social care are to be subject to a wide-ranging review, the
Department of Health announced
last week. The review will define the DoH’s objectives in regulation
and inspection. However, it will not encompass regulation of individuals.
The review is expected to be presented to ministers by Christmas.
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