Self-selection of P medicines - not in the public interest!

I think giving normal people with little knowledge of the dangers of P meds in overdose is extremely dangerous. There's a reason Pharmacists are there and if we take that away then we are putting profit before health.

I do not believe that open display of P medicines is a good idea as people are not always aware of the dangers of taking in appropriate medicines or indeed taking different medicines together with or without prescription medicines. They often think that if they are on the open shelf then they can't to any harm and this of course is not always true. Many people do not read labels and instructions and need to be aware of the dangers.

there was so much around restricting pseudoephedrine and now customers would be able to take off shelf and if needed bypass checkouts/tills with large quantities

I totally support the PDA's position against P medicines being available via open displays.

Public doesn't know of the adverse reactions. May lead to disputes and easier mistakes.

This is wrong

I support the PDA's stance against the open display of P medicines

Totally unacceptable will lead to increased hospital admissions and potential abuse

This is totally unexpected and inappropriate suggestion from someone so closely related to profession.

The GPhC does not represent my views

The most ludicrous policy ever to come out of GHPC and the safeguard that this will be an agreement between employee and employer is dillusional as the employer will have the only say and demand it and patient safety will be compromised

I can clearly see how to the multiples creating merchandising areas for the conditions like "pain relief" would enable greater sales if P meds could be put with other self selection items. However how this can be better for patient safety which is the GPhC's brief I do not understand. How we at the local pharmacy level are supposed to access risk when these bodies can't make a decision as to what the law should be I don't know. Either P meds have restricted access to the public and are supplied under supervision or they are not. If we have local decisions it will mean that if you have higher levels of restriction you will loose sales and customers and as we are in a very competitive industry you will ultimately go out of business. Come on GPharm please do your job and make the law clear for everyone pharmacists, assistants and patients

Potentially highly unsafe recommendation - for the patient, who may access drugs liable to abuse or clinically unsuitable for them, and for pharmacy staff who will undoubtedly face aggression and a lack of understanding if they seek to prevent such sales. I am also unclear as to how this meets the remit of the GPhC to 'safeguard the public' - by making potent medicines more easily available. Self-selection is quite the opposite !

GPhC needs to listen to registrants; not their vested interests of large multiples.

In the UK the "P" category works well to protect patient safety. It also provides a "tool kit" for community pharmacists to affectively treat members of the public, thus relieving strain on GP surgeries. Instead of changing the "P" system in the direction of self-selection, the GPhC should be moving it in the alternative direction of making more "P" medicines available to pharmacists.

I would like to get a Professional Indemnity Insurance for working as a pharmacist. Please let me know how can I get one. Regards

DUNCAN RUDKIN YOU ARE A JOKE. YOU HAVE NO EXPERIENCE OF COMMUNITY PHARMACY. I can just imagine the drug addict from the local estate collapsing on the floor of tescos next to the bread isle having ingested 2L of codeine linctus - DEAL WITH THIS MR RUDKIN YOU ARE A JOKE OF A PERSON!

For patients safety there should be a P category

This is a truly scary proposal. There are no advantages to this, only very dangerous risks. It will take something terrible happening to a patient for the GPHC to realise their mistake. Proposing this without consultation is preposterous.

I think if they do this then they they need to allow for a free open market so all pharmacists can open pharmacies its not fair how big cooperations have got pharmacists over a barrel. I cannot believe prescriptions are being checked by accredited technicians who do not even need GCSE's english let alone a medical degree. And then there is the disaster of having too many pharmacists for our jobs and of course the next big olan of remote supervision. The government needs to wake up before there are idiots dispensing and issuing medicines. I think we need to protest and wake up the public