A new NPA scheme which has been piloted by the Day Lewis Pharmacy chain since October and will be offered to all 12,500 NPA members from January has come under criticism from the Department of Health (DoH).
The DH said it wanted pharmacists to consider if the inclusion of antibiotics was ‘absolutely necessary’ amid fears it could put strategies to combat increasing antimicrobial resistance ‘at risk’. Patientgroupdirection.com from our inception has been against the use of national antimicrobial supply via PGDs. This is because the founding document of PGDs in the UK set out by the MHRA distinctly says that any PGD drawn up for an antimicrobial should be partly authored by a local microbiologist. If the NPA are offering this as a potentially national scheme how would this be possible?
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