‘Daft bureaucracy’: Shadow health secretary questions supervision rule

The shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, has railed against the “daft bureaucracy” that means a pharmacist must be on site to supervise every prescription that is handed over to patients, even if the medicines in question have already been checked and labelled by a registered pharmacist.

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Wes Streeting: “I really want pharmacy to play a bigger role in primary care” (London Portrait Photoqrapher-DAVID WOOLFALL)

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