The 100-hour flood is dammed

100 hour contracts have impoved access to medicines and pharmacy services per se so that has achieved a goal in itself. Clustering of pharmacies around medical centres was an inevitable upshot of the project, wheher that has impacted upon the professionalism of pharmacy is subjective because it has created opportunities for younger pharmacists to attain practice ownership. My experience of these neww100 hour pharmacies are that they appear professional and staffed by pharmacist that have the latest clinical, ethical and practice skills.

Yes, it may have set the cat among the pigeons of the established pharmacy sector but the 100 hour probably had more pluses than minuses. That said, pharmacy needs to draw a line, gather itself together and plan posistively for the future and hopefully quality and innovation in pharmacy services will deliver sustainable remuneration to develop pharmacy as a healthcare profession.

I personally believe 100 hours was only a threat to big boys like boots, Lloyds and Co operative , so they must be very delighted by this decision because they definatly lobbed for this legislation , this legislation has taken away the dream of ownership of your own pharmacy,now the big multiples will again dictate terms and they will make us work on less wages or if you are a Locum than reduced rates.