When Public Health England (PHE) published its guidance on the use of personal protec tive equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic on 2 April 2020, pharmacy's representative bodies thought the battle had been won. They - the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) and Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), to name just two - believed that government officials had finally recognised the danger being faced by pharmacy teams on the frontline of the pandemic, who are exposed to hundreds of patients every day. Pharmacy teams who work in small spaces, well within two metres - the social distancing measure prescribed by the government -of colleagues in even smaller dispensaries.
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