The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7420 p393
30 September 2006

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· Medical regulation
· PSNC
· Drug interactions
· Nutraceuticals
· Community pharmacy

Letters to the Editor

Community pharmacy

Work breaks

From Mr G. C. B. Smallwood, MRPharmS

I refer to my earlier letter (PJ, 12 August, p188) and Stan Wheatley’s letter (PJ, 16 September, p334) regarding the report from the European Court of Justice that the requirements of the European Working Time Directive must be applied to the UK. My interpretation of the directive is that employees must have a 20-minute break during, not after, every six hours of work, thus giving the Department of Trade and Industry guidelines issued in 1998 real teeth. I hope that this directive will be embedded in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s revised Code of Ethics.

Charles Smallwood
Croydon, Surrey

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