Jeff,
I guess my feelings about all this are fairly well known. But what did
cause relationships, such as they were, to take a profound nose-dive was
the incitement of one or more of the pharmacists' professional bodies to
pharmacists to take advantage of the negligent redrafting of the Regs which
created the loophole. Many colleagues will not know but that allowed
pharmacists with a contract anywhere within an HA area to avoid the
carefully negotiated and agreed Regs and thus deprived the medical practice
(and their patients) of any input or defence of their practice.
Pharmacists are still taking advantage of that negligence and still
preventing practices from putting in a defence of their dispensing despite
the harm it has caused to relationships. Even worse, some pharmacists are
gaining HA permisssion through the loophole and selling on to pharmacy
companies outwith the HA area.
I have always accepted the negotiated regs but have, through those regs,
always put up a strong fight for practices. That is allowed, I believe. I
can do no other than have scant regard for those who seek to bypass those
regs and still complain about inter-professional relationships. They
should put their own house in order. I also have little admiration for
our "side" who prefer to appease rather than press the political case for a
reversion of the regs to the agreed position.
Just a thought :-D
David Roberts
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