Pharmacists should enjoy genuine professional independence to ensure public protection Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/pharmacists-should-enjoy-genuine-professional-independence-to-ensure-public-protection.html Online petition signatures en-us Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:03 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Dr Anonymous [Signature #150] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14225929?utm_medium=rss Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:52:42 UTC 14225929 Mr Das subedar Bhambra [Signature #149] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14225899?utm_medium=rss We have seen how corporate companies have used pharmacy as a way of lining shareholders pockets. These people have managed to discredit pharmacy as a profession. Not only do they cost the taxpayer more money than independents (higher costs), but also dodge the taxman by using offshore head offices.
Pharmacists are regulated professionals with ethics, codes of conduct, and principles. Where quality is a great issue within the nhs, it is well known fact that an independent is better at caring for their patients and providing exceptional service.

]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:48:14 UTC 14225899 D Gourley [Signature #148] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14195107?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 Dec 2012 05:50:42 UTC 14195107 Mr kieron ruane [Signature #147] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14192109?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:43:30 UTC 14192109 Ian Bishop [Signature #146] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13408038?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:25:48 UTC 13408038 Mr Andrew Christopherson [Signature #145] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13407316?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:27:36 UTC 13407316 Mr Jarrod Roberts [Signature #144] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13407285?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:25:28 UTC 13407285 MR Frank Randall [Signature #143] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11948315?utm_medium=rss Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:59:05 UTC 11948315 Mr Daniel McNulty [Signature #142] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11833202?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:24:51 UTC 11833202 MR Andrew Ervin [Signature #141] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11717749?utm_medium=rss Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:38:34 UTC 11717749 Mr RAJNIKANT SHAH [Signature #140] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11295386?utm_medium=rss Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:45:28 UTC 11295386 Miss Anonymous [Signature #139] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11232662?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:52:27 UTC 11232662 J Mcpolin [Signature #138] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11208263?utm_medium=rss Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:28:07 UTC 11208263 mr raza ali [Signature #137] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11200421?utm_medium=rss Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:14:24 UTC 11200421 mr Khalid MAHMOOD [Signature #136] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11200419?utm_medium=rss Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:14:08 UTC 11200419 Anonymous [Signature #135] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11181040?utm_medium=rss Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:34:11 UTC 11181040 Mr David Harris [Signature #134] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11165368?utm_medium=rss Professional Independence could save many patients' lives, reduce hospital admissions and save the NHS a fortune. We have already seen the farce that has been perpetuated by some multiple pharmacy chains in forcing pharmacists to carry out rubbish MURs purely to feather their own nests.
The attempts to circumvent the times for pharmacists to sign in as an attempt to take advantage of the Responsible Pharmacist regulations with no thought of the extra pressure and fatigue are a disgrace.P4M6

]]> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:39:37 UTC 11165368 Mr Anonymous [Signature #133] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11133594?utm_medium=rss Only pharmacists should be able to own pharmacies, and the benefits of this has been shown in many countries, eg New Zealand

]]> Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:06:16 UTC 11133594 Mr Anonymous [Signature #132] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11130578?utm_medium=rss Wed, 7 Sep 2011 01:31:26 UTC 11130578 Mr. Ian Smith [Signature #131] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11127210?utm_medium=rss There is too much EU interference in UK matters and I doubt if this proposal from the EU, however well intentioned, will have the desired effect. In practice, no doubt the opposite will occur. Remember the old saying "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"? Most EU directives seem to have an adverse effect on UK citizens.

]]> Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:17:55 UTC 11127210 Mr Keith Parker [Signature #130] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11119992?utm_medium=rss Mon, 5 Sep 2011 05:59:25 UTC 11119992 Mr. Amechi Okeleke [Signature #129] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11109662?utm_medium=rss In addtion to protecting Public health, it will save the tax payer millions of pound currently being spent by coporations on middle and top level management.
It will enhance relationship between Pharmacists, GPs and other healthcare professionals. Many of us believe that some GPs and other healthcare professionals view corporations with suspiscion because these professionals reckon that everything done by corporations is aimed at maximising profit.

]]> Fri, 2 Sep 2011 01:21:42 UTC 11109662 Anna Kawka [Signature #128] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11105823?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Sep 2011 04:34:05 UTC 11105823 Mr Giannicola D'Aloisio [Signature #127] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11105481?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Sep 2011 03:00:43 UTC 11105481 Mrs Charlotte Thorne [Signature #126] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11093410?utm_medium=rss Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:29:42 UTC 11093410 Mr Stephen Walker [Signature #125] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11090288?utm_medium=rss Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:30:24 UTC 11090288 Mr Jolyon Barrow [Signature #124] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11085875?utm_medium=rss I am a UK registered pharmacist

]]> Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:42:48 UTC 11085875 V. Bate [Signature #123] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11079824?utm_medium=rss Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:14:12 UTC 11079824 Mr Jonathan Cole [Signature #122] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11076788?utm_medium=rss Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:10:48 UTC 11076788 Mrs Ngozi Okonkwo [Signature #121] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11072836?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:02:28 UTC 11072836 Mr Bartosz Hoffmann [Signature #120] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11072142?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:22:43 UTC 11072142 ms joanna aling [Signature #119] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11072138?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:22:17 UTC 11072138 Mr David Phillips [Signature #118] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11071452?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:50:55 UTC 11071452 Mr Graham Hill [Signature #117] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11066006?utm_medium=rss Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:34:05 UTC 11066006 Mr. and Mrs. John and Jennifer Bullock [Signature #116] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11065578?utm_medium=rss Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:06:51 UTC 11065578 Mr Barry Wilson [Signature #115] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11063726?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:54:42 UTC 11063726 Mr. Anonymous [Signature #114] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11062377?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:00:53 UTC 11062377 Ms Cathey Holland [Signature #113] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11061485?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:33:19 UTC 11061485 Mr Dipesh Patel [Signature #112] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11061189?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:27:28 UTC 11061189 Mr Amit Dawda [Signature #111] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11061178?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:21:22 UTC 11061178 mr naveed zahoor [Signature #110] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11061164?utm_medium=rss i believe that when pharmacists are left alone to run their own pharmacies they are more likely to consider local needs of their community making them much more effective when providing a health service appropriate to their area. Currently when the large companies enforce certain services throughout their whole company there are many pharmacies that are forced to provide a service in an area that does not benefit from that service and take away resources that could be used on local initiatives.

]]> Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:13:39 UTC 11061164 Ms Margaret Lamb [Signature #109] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11057583?utm_medium=rss Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:35:36 UTC 11057583 Mr Richard Harris [Signature #108] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11054554?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:05:14 UTC 11054554 Mr Thomas Pendlebury [Signature #107] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11053486?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:53:10 UTC 11053486 mr robin carnegie [Signature #106] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11053246?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:59:22 UTC 11053246 Mrs Nayantara Chotai [Signature #105] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11052988?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:13:00 UTC 11052988 Dr Julian Thorne [Signature #104] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11052902?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:54:53 UTC 11052902 mrs Anonymous [Signature #103] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11052512?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:18:35 UTC 11052512 Mrs Allison Newman [Signature #102] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11052113?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:20:31 UTC 11052113 Mr Vimal Patel [Signature #101] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11049492?utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:22:21 UTC 11049492 Miss Kay Hadley [Signature #100] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11049406?utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:00:39 UTC 11049406 Mr C Hetherington [Signature #99] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11048827?utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:12:12 UTC 11048827 mr andrew mawdsley [Signature #98] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11048799?utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:03:59 UTC 11048799 Mr Anonymous [Signature #97] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11047938?utm_medium=rss This malady is clouding, and actually influencing my everyday life, the desire to keek managers happy , patient safety is now a reflection of corporation balance sheets. Help

]]> Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:31:29 UTC 11047938 Anonymous [Signature #96] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11047634?utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:25:18 UTC 11047634 Mr Adam Pattison Rathbone [Signature #95] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11047086?utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:28:22 UTC 11047086 Mr Joseph Anthony Schofield [Signature #94] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11046207?utm_medium=rss I am signing this in the knowledge that this is a petition to improve professional autonomy, NOT to attempt to change rules for ownership of community pharmacies.

]]> Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:33:38 UTC 11046207 Mrs Hayley Cooper [Signature #93] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11045150?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:47:39 UTC 11045150 Mr Anonymous [Signature #92] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11045042?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:58:28 UTC 11045042 mr williams Boneless [Signature #91] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11045016?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:51:37 UTC 11045016 Graham Moule [Signature #90] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11044163?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Aug 2011 02:21:07 UTC 11044163 Mr Kazeem Olalekan [Signature #89] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11043989?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:37:42 UTC 11043989 Mr Olu Fasogbon [Signature #88] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11043665?utm_medium=rss The public continue to be the looser as big business takes over pharmacy practice and core decisions are taken away from professionals who become so marginalised. This is the only way forward to ensure responsible and accountable professional pharmaceutical services.
Government has to listen to the people and protect its citizens.

]]> Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:15:48 UTC 11043665 Ursula Davisson [Signature #87] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11042832?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:31:19 UTC 11042832 Dr Adam Mackrdge [Signature #86] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11042547?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:21:26 UTC 11042547 mr vimal mistry [Signature #85] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11042469?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:58:01 UTC 11042469 Mr Terence Holbrook [Signature #84] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11042466?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:57:44 UTC 11042466 mr alex molyneux [Signature #83] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11042278?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:07:29 UTC 11042278 Mrs Daphne Chase [Signature #82] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11042215?utm_medium=rss Overwork in processing large numbers of prescriptions in inadequate time causes mistakes and distress to patients - as well as the pharmacist. We can do without the pressures put on employees to constantly make even more profit by non medical businesses who have strayed into the medical field.

]]> Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:52:51 UTC 11042215 Mrs Marion Samways [Signature #81] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11042101?utm_medium=rss It is inherently wrong to have multiples, supermarkets and GPs owing pharmacies as is currently the situation. Pharmacists are not able to practise independently this way and it is in the public interest that they should.

]]> Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:16:21 UTC 11042101 Mr James Brunt [Signature #80] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11041941?utm_medium=rss Pharmacists need to be masters of their own destiny, whilst practising their profession, without the commercial bottom line oriented pressures currently exerted in the work place by multiple ownership or having to heed the conflicting influence of members of the medical profession and other unqualified people who are able to own pharmacies nowadays

]]> Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:25:53 UTC 11041941 Mr Anonymous [Signature #79] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11040543?utm_medium=rss Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:26:13 UTC 11040543 Mr Stephen Walsh [Signature #78] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11039993?utm_medium=rss Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:38:19 UTC 11039993 Mr Azhar Aziz [Signature #77] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11039925?utm_medium=rss must follow german way of ownership

]]> Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:16:13 UTC 11039925 Mrs Sukhwir Rai [Signature #76] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11039525?utm_medium=rss I went to collect my mothers repeat prescription from the No.1 pharmacy group on the highstreet. After filling out the prescription on collection and being handed over the large bag of precription items, I was asked by the staff member "will your mother like all these again next month?". How will my mother know today what she will need in a months time!! I sat with my mother and went through the medicines, from the 6 medicines she only needed 2. What a waste of public money a disgrace..(patient)

]]> Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:11:03 UTC 11039525 Mr Gurnam Singh [Signature #75] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11039449?utm_medium=rss Patients and the Public can only really be safetly protected when the pharmacy they utilise is a pharmacy owned by the pharmacist rather then a large corporate organiation that is only really concerned about protecting its profits. Large pharmacy organisations being finacially elite are able to dictate the direction of pharmacy and thats only in one direction, TO MAXIMISE PROFITS.

]]> Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:50:11 UTC 11039449 mr GEORGE ANTHONY WEAVER [Signature #74] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11038881?utm_medium=rss I was at the Albert Hall the day pharmacy was mortally injured!

]]> Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:17:04 UTC 11038881 Mr Steve Bell [Signature #73] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11038531?utm_medium=rss Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:36:43 UTC 11038531 Miss Naeema Majothi [Signature #72] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11034750?utm_medium=rss Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:19:03 UTC 11034750 Mr Anonymous [Signature #71] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11034383?utm_medium=rss Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:21:45 UTC 11034383 Anonymous [Signature #70] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11033957?utm_medium=rss Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:07:47 UTC 11033957 Andrew Christopherson [Signature #69] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11028695?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:54:35 UTC 11028695 Mr Kevin Frost [Signature #68] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11028132?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:26:52 UTC 11028132 Mr Ian C Oakley [Signature #67] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11027659?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:51:54 UTC 11027659 Dr Joseph Bush [Signature #66] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11025572?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:52:25 UTC 11025572 Ms alchemist alchemy [Signature #65] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11025488?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:37:23 UTC 11025488 Mr Anonymous [Signature #64] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11024824?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:16:13 UTC 11024824 Mr Ian Osborne [Signature #63] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11024792?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:09:34 UTC 11024792 Mr Anonymous [Signature #62] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11024453?utm_medium=rss Although a complex issue, ownership by pharmacists would add to the safety and best interests of the patient I believe.

]]> Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:00:17 UTC 11024453 Mr Philip Hayes [Signature #61] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11023987?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:59:03 UTC 11023987 bharat nathwani [Signature #60] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11021974?utm_medium=rss Community pharmacy in England is in structural disarray. Even the lead negotiatior representing the Government admits that we need to start with a blank piece of paper ! We urge the Government to listen to her views AND the views of the ELECTED professional representatives of Pharmacists at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS). At present the Government does not take into account the views of the RPS even though the RPS is the ONLY professional body representing pharmacists.

]]> Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:56:59 UTC 11021974 Mr Peter Thomas [Signature #59] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11021888?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:36:52 UTC 11021888 Mr Jarrod Roberts [Signature #58] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11021624?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:43:06 UTC 11021624 Mr Vishant Patel [Signature #57] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11021509?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:26:07 UTC 11021509 Mr rahul patel [Signature #56] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11021399?utm_medium=rss This will be the only way to ensure the deteriorating professional independence of Pharmacist can be halted. We can longer rely on our own so called ‘professional body (GPhC)’ to protect the public for the insidious commercial capitalisation of our profession and only Her Majesty’s government can help.

]]> Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:10:23 UTC 11021399 Mr Lance Roth [Signature #55] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11021338?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:01:30 UTC 11021338 Mr Robert Shepherd [Signature #54] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11021295?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Aug 2011 02:55:28 UTC 11021295 Mr Anonymous [Signature #53] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11021173?utm_medium=rss A worthy aim, but I fear ongoing business interests of government will prevail. I'm still behind the idea though!

]]> Wed, 17 Aug 2011 02:34:27 UTC 11021173 Mr Brian Perry [Signature #52] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11021149?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Aug 2011 02:31:21 UTC 11021149 Miss Anonymous [Signature #51] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11020588?utm_medium=rss I fully support this and hope to see the law changed in the near future.

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