Source: rpharms.com
The Human Medicines (Authorisation by Pharmacists and Supervision by Pharmacy Technicians) Order 2025
was approved by Parliament and the Privy Council on the 11th December.
These legislative changes introduce flexibilities concerning how medicines are prepared, assembled,
dispensed, sold and supplied within pharmacy services, and more specifically who oversees and is
professionally accountable for these processes. This follows a government consultation on proposals
to modernise medicines legislation governing which tasks must be undertaken by a pharmacist, or
under the supervision of a pharmacist, in a community pharmacy, hospital or other relevant settings.
These changes will enable:
- pharmacists to authorise any competent member of the pharmacy team to hand
out ‘checked and bagged prescriptions’ in their absence (from 7th January 2026)
- pharmacists to authorise pharmacy technicians to carry out or supervise other
staff to carry out the assembly, dispensing and sale or supply of medicines
(from 10th December 2026) - pharmacy technicians to supervise the preparation, assembly and dispensing of
medicines in hospital aseptic units (from 10th December 2026).
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