The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7398 p504
29 April 2006

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· Branded prescribing
· Antibiotics
· PSNC
· Medicines use reviews
· New technologies
· Boots/Alliance merger
· The profession
· Section 60 Order
· The Society (3)
· Information
· Health committee

Letters to the Editor

Boots/Alliance merger

Let us have an unambiguous answer

From Mr G. B. Green, MRPharmS

The response (PJ, 8 April, p418) from Pradip Patel, superintendent pharmacist at Boots The Chemists, to my question regarding the release of patient records to any person or company choosing to buy any of the Boots or Alliance UniChem pharmacies which they will be obliged to sell following completion of their proposed merger, was incomplete. He needs to specify what he believes purchasers would be obliged to do to meet his “data protection requirements”. In 2003, satisfying those data protection requirements proved well near impossible for most of my clients involved in seeking to buy those pharmacies and his reply does not address the question that I raised about what difference there is between passing that information over to a new owner or allowing access to it by a self-employed locum working in a Boots or Alliance UniChem pharmacy.

Gerald Green
Lewes, East Sussex

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