RPS questionaire

[El-loco]

I have been asked to post a request on a couple of forums asking pharmacists to fill in this little questionaire.

Membership survey on supervision

Honestly it will take you about ONE minute to do and you do not have to give your name. At least have a look.

If you are not renewing your RPS membership you can still fill it in. I have been informed that as long as you were a member on 20th Feb your views will be statistically useable.

[johnep]

I was able to fill in the form and I am not a member.
johnep

[El-loco]

Yes but if you do not enter an RPS membership number that was valid on 20 February your answers cannot be used.

Your membership number is not visible to or given to anyone.

[DavidS]

I found it impossible to answer the last question,

The maximum period of time a community pharmacy can safely open to the public without a pharmacists is:

because it depends on what is legally allowed to be done when the pharmacist is absent. If medicines are to be sold and dispensed, then I would answer, not at all. If, on the other hand, prescriptions are to be prepared for checking, and medicines are not to be sold, then provided the staff are competent I don't see much of a problem.

I would like more attention given to the word "safely" as well. What exactly does this mean to a scientist involved in risk assessment? Not much, if unqualified as above. Complete safety, for instance, would involve the shop being locked and evacuated, but even then there is a chance of insect or rodent contamination. The question is meaningless to a scientist. Acceptable levels of safety are what this is about, and will depend on what the public/DoH is prepared to pay for.

I wondered if this was a rushed exercise to demonstrate that something is being done, to impress those wavering over whether to renew their membership, rather than to learn anything new.