Three years ahead of the UK implementation of EU anti-counterfeiting legislation - known as the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) - British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (BAPW) executive director Martin Sawer spoke to C+D about how it could affect pharmacists.
As part of the EU plans, pharmacists will be required to scan the barcodes of medicines packs at the point of dispensing from 2018. After a delegated act is published by the EU in September, the UK government would need to pick one of three potential IT suppliers to implement the system, Mr Sawer said at the BAPW’s annual conference last week (June 18).
