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Registered pharmaciesOur visionfor registeredpharmaciesModernising pharmacyregulation:A consultation on the draft standards for registered pharmaciesOn 8 February, we launched aformal consultation on our visionfor a safe system of managing anddelivering pharmacy services inGreat Britain. Included in this workare new draft standards for registeredpharmacies. The consultation runsto 7 May.The way pharmacy care and servicesare organised in England, Scotland andWales is changing. Pharmacists andpharmacy technicians have knowledgeand skills which can help to promote,protect and improve the health ofindividuals and the public. Thisenhanced role - and the good that itdoes - goes way beyond dispensingmedicines on prescription.This greater scope for doing goodbrings with it the potential for newrisks. We believe it’s our role, as thepharmacy regulator, to ensure that thepublic is properly protected so thatthey can safely benefit frompharmacy services in the way thateveryone wants.Our main concern is what matters topatients and the public so our focus inthis consultation is on what the systemfor managing and delivering pharmacyservices achieves for them.Our consultation proposals seek to:• describe the outcomes of safe andeffective practice that we think shouldbe achieved• make clear who is responsible andwhat they are responsible for• enable pharmacy professionals totake decisions in the best interests oftheir patients rather than against adetailed step by step rule book fromthe regulatorWe have recognised that it is not enoughfor us to publish standards for registeredpharmacies alone. We want to be clearabout which premises we believe mustbe registered with us and must adhereto our standards. We have also set outthe approach we plan to take to securingcompliance with the standards and howwe will manage non-compliance.8 Regula+e: February 2012 | Issue 3