The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7474 p438
20 October 2007

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How can the date of a premises’ registration have any effect?

From Miss M. J. Gilmour, MRPharmS

To quote Victor Meldrew, “I don’t believe it!” How can the date of registration of pharmacy premises have any effect whatsoever on the competence, or otherwise, of any pharmacist working therein?

I can see merit in restrictions on when any newly qualified pharmacist may be in sole personal control of a pharmacy, but that has absolutely nothing to do with how long a pharmacy has existed at a particular address.

Thank you, Olivier Picard, for publicising that particular piece of legal lunacy (PJ, 29 September 2007, p352). Jeremy Holmes (ibid), replies that change to the current requirements would require a change in primary legislation.

I suggest that he starts this process of change now, before his in-tray becomes too full, so that we do not continue to be the pharmaceutical laughing-stock of Europe.

Margaret J. Gilmour
Bolton, Lancashire

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