PDA calls for review of self-selection plans following e-cigarette furore

1) The PDA have asked the GPHC to make ecigs part of the inspection.
2) The PDA have done this because the RPS have advised pharmacy to shun ecigs.


The RPS is a boil (in need of lancing) on the rear end of pharmacy. It represents some pharmacists not all. They have done little to promote, represent or support pharmacy when we needed it. RPS guidance is just that, guidance. It is not a ruling by any regulatory body.


The GPHC are already inspecting pharmacies. The PDA should know that many pharmacists have been left in shock at GPHC expectations/ demands. Does the PDA really think we need to add more to these inspections? The PDA should be representing members that have been forced to sell ecigs against their better judgement. That is all.

If the RPS and PDA want to "promote and maintain the health, safety and wellbeing of members of the public" (GPHC's job) then these two organisations should be lobbying the govt to ban ecigs entirely until they have been regulated.

The PDA should be representing its members, not making life more difficult.
The RPS should be allowed to disappear in ignominy.