The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7445 p356
31 March 2007

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Superintendents must live in UK, say company chemists

Superintendent pharmacists of pharmacy companies should have to live in the UK, the Company Chemists Association has said.

Responding to a Royal Pharmaceutical Society consultation on guidance notes on the new Code of Ethics, the CCA told the Society that it should seek amendment of the Medicines Act 1968 to make UK residence a requirement.

The CCA also took the view that comments in the planned guidance notes in relation to patient confidentiality did not go far enough. It said that unnecessary access to patient specific data should be prevented, not merely minimised, and that patients should be told that information might be shared with other health professionals.