Online pharmacies are eight times more likely to fail regulatory standards, data show

摘要

Pharmacies supplying drugs online are far more likely than their high street counterparts to fail on regulatory standards, data gathered by The Pharmaceutical Journal have revealed.Analysis of General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) inspection reports shows that 28 (21.7%) of the 129 'distanceselling' pharmacies that had been inspected between April 2019 and March 2022 failed to meet at least one of the five regulatory standards following their most recent inspection. Of these 28 distance-selling pharmacies, 23 failed to meet two or more standards.