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Pharmacy in the United Kingdom has been an integral part of the National Health Service since it was established in 1948. Unlike the rest of the NHS pharmacies are largely privately provided apart from those in hospitals, and even these are now often privately run. ==History== The Pharmacy Act 1868 limited the sale of poisons and dangerous drugs to qualified pharmacists and druggists. The advent of the NHS had an immediate beneficial effect on the pharmaceutical industry. In 1960 there were proposals that the private patients of general practitioners should be enabled to receive their drugs free on the health service, but they were not implemented. The supply of drugs in the hospital service represented about one-tenth by value of the supply through the retail pharmaceutical service in 1965. There was a reduction of more than a quarter in the number of pharmacies in the community between 1963 and 1979. According to the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee at that time over 4,000 pharmacies in England and Wales dispensing less than 24,000 prescriptions per annum were losing money on NHS services. NHS pharmacies are governed and paid for their NHS work under a standard contract, which was last modified in 2005. This modification enabled pharmacists to be paid to conduct Medicines Use Reviews for people with multiple long term prescriptions. There are also New Medicine Services, which are intended for patients who have started on long term medication, such as asthma treatment. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pharmacy in the United Kingdom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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