The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7469 p279
15 September 2007

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Legislation set to separate concepts of “responsible pharmacist” and “supervision”

“Responsible pharmacist” (the concept that will encompass and modernise “personal control”) is to be separated from the concept of “supervision” in legislative changes due to take effect within the next six months. This was announced at the BPC by Jeannette Howe, head of pharmacy at the Department of Health.

Formal consultation on the legislation to change the interpretation of “personal control” to “responsible pharmacist” will start later in the autumn (2007). She explained that, following that phase, Regulations will be laid before Parliament in the spring of 2008.

The Regulations, however, will not take effect until a later date, after pharmacists have been given the time and opportunity to prepare for the changes and work out the implications for their practice.

At some time in the future, as yet unspecified, a similar process of consultation and changes to legislation will be undertaken over the introduction of the concept of remote supervision.