RPSGB CANDIDATES FOR POM-TO-P SWITCHING

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has drawn up a list of 51 prescription drug products which it says could safely be switched to pharmacy status.

The list is based on the original recommendations accepted by the joint pharmacy profession/Department of Health working party, which published its report in March on ways in which the National Health Service community pharmaceutical services might be developed to increase their contribution to health care.

Discussing the report at a meeting organized by the Medicines Control Agency in London on the new POM-to-P switching (Marketletter October 26), Roger Odd, head of the practice division at the RPSGB, said the Society would be making further applications for products to be switched, following the success of its recommendation for switching of clotrimazole, miconazole, econazole and isoconazole for the treatment of vaginal thrush. However, another application by the Society, for triamcinolone dental paste, had been turned down.