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Make superintendents ‘responsible’ for stricter Wegovy safeguards, says GPhC

 
• By Kate Bowie

“Not following” the pharmacy regulator’s proposed new guidance on weight loss drugs and online pharmacy prescribing could result in fitness-to-practise (FtP) investigations into “all the pharmacy professionals involved”, it has warned.  

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The plans require pharmacies to "independently verify" patients' "weight, height and/or BMI”
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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