At the beginning of last month, Clinical Pharmacist spoke to a primary care pharmacist who we believed to be running a PCT diabetes clinic with a specialist nurse. (We were hunting for someone to write an article for our IN THE CLINIC series.) Unfortunately, we were told, the clinic is no longer in operation because the PCT has had to "separate its provider and commissioner functions". This phrase has been bandied about by primary care pharmacists for several years but we found ourselves wondering whether this process was done and dusted or whether it was still work in progress. It seemed a fair bet that many pharmacists, particularly those working outside PCT land, were probably wondering the same. So we asked Jonathan Mason, national clinical director for primary care and community pharmacy in England, to fill in the blanks.
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