Pharmacy technicians may prepare and dispense medicines without supervision under government proposals

The Department of Health and Social Care said the proposals were “not a move towards allowing pharmacists to remotely supervise a community pharmacy”.
Pharmacy. Technician preparing prescriptions at a pharmacy.
The government said the proposals are “designed to allow pharmacists to spend less time on tasks that can be safely delegated to pharmacy technicians”

LEWIS HOUGHTON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Pharmacists could authorise pharmacy technicians to carry out “the preparation, assembly, dispensing, sale and supply of medicines”, under the government’s long-awaited proposals for the overhaul of pharmacy supervision.

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