Pet month: an opportunity for pharmacy

摘要

National Pet Month starts on 5 April, promoting responsible pet ownership. It gives community pharmacists a chance to show they are keen to offer high quality medicines and advice to. Britain's millions of pet owners. Heidi Wright, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's head of practice, outlines why and how pharmacists should get involved Pharmacy has a long history of supplying medicines to animal owners but until recently the veterinary practice and the pet shop have been the main source of supply for commonly used pet health products. This could change if community pharmacists grasp the opportunity presented by the re-classification of many prophylactic POM(V) products (prescription-only veterinary products) to a new category that is effectively a pharmacy (P) medicine category for supplies from pharmacies.