‘Daft bureaucracy’: Shadow health secretary questions supervision rule
The shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, has railed against the “daft bureaucracy” that means a pharmacist must be on site to supervise every prescription that is handed over to patients, even if the medicines in question have already been checked and labelled by a registered pharmacist.
Speaking today (September 26) at the Labour party conference taking place in Liverpool this week, Mr Streeting suggested that “sensible improvements on things like medicine