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From: David Roberts <[log in to unmask]>
To: INTERNET:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 02 July 1998 18:14
Subject: Re: Re Milburns Letter (and dispensing)
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>aren't the current regulations restrictive, preventing me from
>dispensing?>
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- and GMSC (supported by the DDA Ltd Co) is intent on making the regs even
more restrictive by making it impossible for market town GPs to apply to
dispense for their peripheral, rural patients. I believe this to be
contemptible and abhorent.
David Roberts.
The deal to block new dispensing practices was the only way the dispensing
doctors on the committee could plug the loophole in regulation 12 and
protect the dispensing privileges of existing dispensing practices. I voted
against the moratorium on new dispensing practices. Bloody cheek if you ask
me. I think we should all be able to dispense, provided we employ a
pharmacist within the primary health care team to do it! I think genuine
rural practices need a new and large rural practice allowance to compensate
for lower dispensing profits, difficulty with co-ops etc. Their viability
should not
have to rely on dispensing. Truly rural practices have not fared well since
1990. The stumbling block is as usual target net - we all dispense - we all
do it for nothing! The fact that dispensing profit is superannuated and
doctors in a similar semi-rural practice to my own, just 4 miles away, will
get a substantially larger pension ( approx £5000 p.a. more)because they are
allowed to dispense and I am not, irritates me no end! When you realise the
money involved, it's no wonder dispensing doctors defend it so
vigorously!!!!
Peter Fellows.
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