Time to end the anomalies

摘要

The financially contentious supply-only function of prescription-only medicines during the weekday-only office hours operated by rural doctors has again reared its head in the details of the White Paper for pharmacy in England. The Dispensing Doctors Association states that this could spell the end of rural doctors' well remunerated and lightly regulated additional source of income. Since the inception of the NHS in 1948, rural doctors have manipulated, nurtured and developed this highly profitable non-medical side of their practices, playing the convenience card as their ace.