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Pharmacy in England: Building on strengths – delivering the future – proposals for legislative change

The Pharmacy White Paper (Pharmacy in England: Building on Strengths – delivering the future) was published on 3 April 2008. This consultation document, Building on Strengths - delivering the future – proposals for legislative change, fulfils the commitment to publish fuller information on a number of proposals for structural change and consult on them. The document discusses a number of changes and levers which the Department believes are needed in both the medium and longer-term to transform delivery and to align pharmaceutical services within the wider reform programme.

An overarching impact assessment including the Equality Impact Assessment and eight partial impact assessments are being published with the consultation document, as is a response form which can be used to answer the questions raised in the consultation document.

Responses are welcome from everyone including individual members of the public/patients, individual pharmacists and other primary care contractors as well as organisations representing their interests. It would be helpful if responses could be made using the template response form below

• Download consultation document (PDF, 409K)
• Download impact assessments: overarching document and equality impact assessment (PDF, 148K)
• Download impact assessment of proposals to reform ‘market entry’ based on pharmaceutical needs assessments (PDF, 334K)
• Download impact asessment of pharmacy market exit policy (PDF, 284K)
• Download impact assessment of proposals to amend arrangements for pharmacies applying to provide services for 100 hours per week (PDF, 407K)
• Download impact assessment of proposed supplementary lists for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians (PDF, 314K)
• Download impact assessment of proposals concerning legislative arrangements governing NHS dispensing doctors (PDF, 575K)
• Download impact assessment of proposals to allow for a single regulatory route for applicants to provide pharmaceutical services (PDF, 316K)
• Download impact assessment of permitting dispensing doctors to sell over-the-counter medicines (PDF, 439K)
• Download impact assessment of changes to market entry arrangements for new dispensing appliance contractors (PDF, 396K)