The chemist and druggist [electronic resource] . mesAndrew Taylor seeks? Nuffield is ancient history andPharmaceutical Care is over two years old. While theprofessions leaders have fiddled, Boots have burned themidnight oil. Their national PMR link launch this week (p713) isevidence of a strategy to provide a range of common,countrywide pharmaceutical services. While the NPAsreaction is precisely right, their protest on behalf of theindependent is likely to be muffled by the sound of BootsPR campaign — unless, of course, pharmacists make theright local noises to health authorities and are doin
The chemist and druggist [electronic resource] . mesAndrew Taylor seeks? Nuffield is ancient history andPharmaceutical Care is over two years old. While theprofessions leaders have fiddled, Boots have burned themidnight oil. Their national PMR link launch this week (p713) isevidence of a strategy to provide a range of common,countrywide pharmaceutical services. While the NPAsreaction is precisely right, their protest on behalf of theindependent is likely to be muffled by the sound of BootsPR campaign — unless, of course, pharmacists make theright local noises to health authorities and are doing theright things now in their community. Nurse leaders have successfully sowed the seeds of theirworth, hence nurse prescribing — why not pharmacists?CPs will soon be into writing private scripts for OTCs -why not selling them? Next week the PSNC will at lastproduce its strategy for future developments. The time forstrategies is past. It is now time for action. Chemist & Druggist 30 APRIL 1994 711 Mock preregistrationexam sparks furore. Revelations that around 30 percent of preregistration studentsare being given pre-test regist-ration exam questions to sit hasshocked the British Pharma-ceutical Students Association. During an open discussionsession at the BPSA Preregist-ration Conference last Saturday,it became apparent that theLondon Pharmaceutical Consort-ium, which organises the exam on behalf of the Society, hasdistributed pre-test questions tostudents working for Boots,Lloyds and some large healthauthorities — in short, placeswhere there is already a traininginfrastructure. Students thenanswer the questions under examconditions. Those students employed bysmaller health authorities and inthe independent community Pharmacy subject to markettesting within the NHS NHS managers are beginning tomarket test support services inthe NHS such as pharmacy andpathology, according to thejunior Health Minister TomSackville. Addressing a National Assoc-iation of Health Authorities
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