The Malta Chamber of Pharmacists said today that it had not been consulted by the government ahead of the move toward electronic prescriptions for medicines in the POYC scheme.
It said it welcomed the move in principle but it should have been consulted since pharmacists were on the frontline of the Pharmacy of Yout Choice (POYC) scheme.
"Whilst the Chamber was invited to participate in the Ministry for Health working party on e-prescriptions in 2013, wherein its submissions were made and went beyond the generation of a doctor's prescription via computer, the Chamber would have expected to continue to be consulted on the developments in this respect; not least, on the content of the prescription per se, and the modus operandi in the POYC system," the Chamber said.