Changes in the legal status of drugs from prescription only to non-prescription supply: implications for patients, pharmacists and public health

• In: BPP Symposium 4: The Increasingly Knowledgeable Patient on Wednesday, 8 September 2004, 9:00-12:00
• At: New Orleans (USA) (2004)
• Type: Presentation
• By: WALKER, Roger (National Public Health Service for Wales, National Public Health Service, Pontypool, United Kingdom)
• Co-author(s): Popovich (University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America)
  
• Abstract:

  Over the past ten years there have been more than 170 applications in the UK to reclassify medicines from prescription only to non-prescription (pharmacy only or general sales list) status. This paper will review the implications of this for the patient, the pharmacist, and public health. Patient: the increased availability of medicines without..

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