I mean it says right there that they still need a prescription, they’re just empowering pharmacists to do it. Pharmacists have degrees in their specialty and often advise doctors on different drugs and whatnot. People can’t just go in and get them off the shelf.
Also it’s not like the GPs have been doing particularly well when it comes to overprescribing these things.
Oh, that's not a big deal. At least in the US, pharmacists are doctors and their job is to know how drugs work and what they do. Prescribing first-line antibiotics to treat simple infections should be well within their wheelhouse. The biggest problems I see is adding more workload to people who, in the US at least, are already drowning due to callous understaffing.
I mean it says right there that they still need a prescription, they’re just empowering pharmacists to do it. Pharmacists have degrees in their specialty and often advise doctors on different drugs and whatnot. People can’t just go in and get them off the shelf.
Also it’s not like the GPs have been doing particularly well when it comes to overprescribing these things.
Oh, that's not a big deal. At least in the US, pharmacists are doctors and their job is to know how drugs work and what they do. Prescribing first-line antibiotics to treat simple infections should be well within their wheelhouse. The biggest problems I see is adding more workload to people who, in the US at least, are already drowning due to callous understaffing.
I have actually seen this several times in pharmacies when I've visited the US.