The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7472 p373
6 October 2007

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No new vet medicine class

Proposals for a new category of veterinary medicine have been dropped by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate after receiving almost no support in a consultation earlier this year.

The proposed new category — POM-V(HP) [health plan] or POM-HP — would have fallen between the group of medicines that have to be prescribed by a veterinary surgeon and those that can be prescribed by vets, pharmacists and suitably qualified persons.

It would have been used for medicines intended for ongoing treatment or for control of an epidemic or persistent disease in farm animals following initial diagnosis by a vet (PJ, 16 June 2007, p696).