Clause 29 - Pilot schemes
Health and Social Care Bill
10:15 am
Mr John Denham (Minister of State, Department of Health; Southampton, Itchen, Labour)
No member of the Committee would accept the unfortunate caricature that pharmacists, with their professional training and responsibilities, simply dole out medicine without giving advice. The royal society guide makes it clear to pharmacists that it is their professional responsibility to give advice. We need to be careful not to caricature them.