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New GPhC weight loss regs: Online patient forms must be ‘supplemented’

 
• By Kate Bowie

The pharmacy regulator has announced plans to consult on a raft of “additional safeguards” that online pharmacies offering weight loss drugs must provide, including verifying information provided by patients. 

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New guidance will ask prescribers to “verify information provided by patients"
Kate Bowie

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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