Changed pharmacy rules ‘to hit jobs, patients’, representative body claims

New rules governing the role of pharmaceutical assistants will cost hundreds of jobs, will predominantly affect women in their late 50s, and will have implications for rural pharmacies and patient safety, a representative body claims.

Changed pharmacy rules ‘to hit jobs, patients’, representative body claims
Tue, 02 Oct, 2018 - 03:40

By Joe Leogue

New rules governing the role of pharmaceutical assistants will cost hundreds of jobs, will predominantly affect women in their late 50s, and will have implications for rural pharmacies and patient safety, a representative body claims.

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