Rowlands superintendent: Allow trained staff to offer some services under SOPs while pharmacist is away

"Appropriately trained" pharmacy team members should be able to provide limited, pre-agreed services if the responsible pharmacist needs to leave the pharmacy for a maximum of two hours, Margaret MacRury, superintendent and director at Rowlands Pharmacy, has said.

Margaret MacRury
MacRury: “The responsible pharmacist must always be responsible for that pharmacy”

Ms MacRury made her comments during a session on supervision at the Pharmacy Show in Birmingham on Sunday (October 17), which was chaired by Association of Independent Multiple pharmacies (AIMp) CEO Leyla Hannbeck.

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