The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7469 p284
15 September 2007

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NI pharmacists want to stay separate from Great Britain

More than half of the pharmacists registered with the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland and who expressed a view want to keep pharmacy regulation and representation separate from plans for new bodies in Great Britain.

Although only 8 per cent of members took part in a PSNI consultation on how to respond to Government plans to reform the regulation of pharmacy throughout the UK, 52 per cent of them said that they want both regulation and representation to remain the province of the PSNI, separated by a Chinese wall.

One in three members favoured a UK-wide solution, with the remainder favouring a range of other possibilities, each of which included a separate NI body.