We should work towards pharmacists replacing doctors in prescribing roles

摘要

Pharmacists should replace doctors in the role of prescribing where there is an existing diagnosis, and it is within their professional competence to do so. This was one of the motions debated at this year's British Pharmaceutical Students' Association annual conference. Proposing the motion, Gemma Donovan, a fourth-year student at Manchester, said that since pharmacists were medicines experts and doctors were diagnosis experts, it made sense for pharmacists to prescribe the appropriate medicine in accordance with a doctor's diagnosis.