ACTs will be great for community pharmacy,it will free up the p'cist to do other things e.g advanced and enhanced services,OTC consultations etc
The responsible p'cist would be in charge of one pharmacy only ( 2 in exceptional circumstances) and all prescriptions would still need to be clinically assessed by a p'cist so I can't see any probs , I actually wrote to my MP about my concerns and he forwarded that to Andy Burnham who replied ,I could send you copies if you want...don't feel threatened by ACTs we need to embrace them ...anyway with the new proposals its the responsible p'cist who is in charge of SOPs and delegation if you are not happy you don't have to do what your emplyers want and you can report to the society (check insight magazine on the PDA website for further info).Besides not all ACTs will be willing to take on the extra responsibility even though the overall responsibility is the phamacists'
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