When is quality and safety assured?

摘要

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Code of Ethics and Standards contains the simple statement:"Pharmacists' prime concern,irrespective of their sphere of work,must be for the wellbeing and safety of patients and the public."This,clearly,requires a pharmacist to give absolute priority to the quality and safety of medicines given over to clinical use.However,recently introduced policies in the NHS appear to challenge the way in which pharmacists are required to assess the quality and safety of medicines.