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NHS must keep control of pharmacy services
(17 June 2003)

National health service pharmacy regulations are inflexible and in need of reform, according to the House of Commons Health Select Committee. But the National Health Service must retain control over where pharmacy service are provided.

The Health Select Committee carried out a short inquiry into pharmacy regulation and an Office of Fair Trading OFT recommendation that all controls should be swept away because it was concerned that the OFT had failed to take account of the needs of health care. The committee says in a report to Parliament that the OFT proposal to leave professional services to be driven by commercial competition could leave some of the most vulnerable communities with the greatest health needs without any local pharmacy services is unacceptable.


See Health Select Committee report and PDF (185K)