The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7493 p307
15 March 2008

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• Category M medicines
• Community pharmacy (3)
• Primary care contracts
• 100-hour pharmacies
• PCT commissioning
• Prescription charges
• Medicines use reviews
• Dispensing
• Minor ailment scheme
• Adverse drug reactions
• Asthma management (2)
• Non-practising status
• The Society

Letters to the Editor

Medicines use reviews

Evidence for extended pharmacy role

From Mr M. W. Beaman, FRPharmS

I congratulate Perry Melnick on his article on medicines use reviews (PJ, 8 March 2008, pp281–2). This is the sort of evidence that primary care trusts and local pharmaceutical committees need when promoting the value of the new pharmacy contract to GPs and commissioners.

This report is timely in the light of the Darzi review and the forthcoming White Paper on the future of pharmacy.

Many pharmacies provide exemplary levels of service, but we do not always hear of their achievements. The NHS Collaborative on the new pharmacy contract, which ran from 2005 to 2006, published some of these achievements in the National Prescribing Centre report of April 2007.

I hope the emergence of pharmacists with special interests will further this work.

Mike Beaman
Rustington, West Sussex

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