Clause 24 - Requirements about supervision
Health Bill
3:00 pm
Jane Kennedy (Minister of State, Department of Health; Liverpool, Wavertree, Labour)
My habit in Committee is usually to move relatively quickly in order to make progress and to answer briefly at the end of a debate any concerns raised.
The clause seeks to make clear our intention to set out in regulations the requirements as to the conditions that must be complied with before a pharmacist may discharge his duty to supervise from another location, which is what we are introducing as part of the clause. As originally drafted, the measure provided simply that regulations could be made to specify what would constitute adequate supervision. If no regulations were made, the measure as originally drafted did not clarify whether or not the use of remote technology was otherwise acceptable. The provision is fairly straightforward, so I will sit down and see whether there is further debate on it.