Clause 25 - Control of pharmacy premises: individuals and partnerships
Health Bill
3:15 pm
Steve Webb (Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Health; Northavon, Liberal Democrat)
I beg to move amendment No. 123, in clause 25, page 22, line 2, at end insert
‘but nothing in this section shall be taken to require a pharmacist to be present on those premises when medicinal products on a general sale list are sold by retail.’.
This is a probing amendment; we seek clarification. Clause 25 deals with individuals and partnerships. I have questions about the implications of the clause in respect of the particular case of what are called general sale list products—products that do not need a pharmacist to be present to be sold, such as the kind of product that someone might buy in a garage shop. We simply want to be clear that clause 25 would have no impact on general sale list products or on the requirement for pharmacists to be present. If the Minister can reassure us that that is implicit or, indeed, explicit in the clause, we would be more than happy.