Seriously damaging to Scottish community pharmacy

摘要

It has been a frustrating few weeks.No one ever said introducing a new contract was going to be easy,but at least both sides-the Scottish Executive Health Department and the Scottish Pharmaceutical General Council-shared a common goal.The opportunities were there for all to see and successful delivery would mean securing the future of community pharmacy for the next two decades,maximising that future and empowering community pharmacy.Transitional funding arrangements were agreed and proprietary discount issues-had been addressed with the conclusion of the 2003 enquiry.This led to a revised discount clawback scale and the provision of a pound2m fund to support the introduction of the contract.The next step was to agree the service specifications with the aim of publishing them in the next couple of months.