. The chemist and druggist [electronic resource]. up withthose familiar promotions designed tomaintain the illusion ofcompetitiveness for the ever-blinkered consumer. Meanwhile the last bastion ofcommunity pharmacy dominance, theP medicine, will suffer from slowattritionHie Medicines ControlAgency, in the interests of publicaccessibility, will allow the steadychange from P to GSL of all thosemedicines that have established suchan enviable safety record while beingsold under the watchful eye of thecommunity pharmacist! So with their profit base reducedby the loss of sales of medicines,community
. The chemist and druggist [electronic resource]. up withthose familiar promotions designed tomaintain the illusion ofcompetitiveness for the ever-blinkered consumer. Meanwhile the last bastion ofcommunity pharmacy dominance, theP medicine, will suffer from slowattritionHie Medicines ControlAgency, in the interests of publicaccessibility, will allow the steadychange from P to GSL of all thosemedicines that have established suchan enviable safety record while beingsold under the watchful eye of thecommunity pharmacist! So with their profit base reducedby the loss of sales of medicines,community pharmacists will looktowards increased NHS remunerationto maintain their viability. Belatedlythe Government will recognise thatthe Office of Fair Tradings successfulchallenge on RPM has shiftedthe burden of financial responsibilityfor the community pharmacysector towards a more state-fundedsystem. In its Pharmacy in the Future-document, and in many publicpronouncements since, theGovernment has affirmed its supportfor a comprehensive network of. community pharmacies providingessential new roles. I suspect that theoriginal intention was to introducethese changes slowly, funded at myexpense on the back of the frontof shop sales that have alwayssubsidised communitypharmaceutical services. But at a stroke, the loss of RPM hasblown this policy out of the water,and the only alternative, if a v iable-network of community pharmacies isto be maintained, is a new contractthat moves community pharmacyviability ever closer towards statedependency. It is ironic that the narrow remit ofthe Office of FairTrading and theRestrictive Practices Court, which didnot allow consideration of the socialcost of abolishing RPM, could catalyse-other OFTs actionmeans the long-sought newcommunity pharmacy contract couldsuddenly become a reality, but at thecost of an unnecessarily increasedpublic investment in communitypharmaceutical services. win onthe script lottery An unusual event occurred la
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