The range of medicines available over the pharmacy counter is set to increase. The Medicines Control Agency has revised its procedures to speed up the reclassification from prescription only medicine (POM) status to pharmacy only (P) status. In addition, the Medicines Act has recently been revised to ensure, by five yearly review, that the prescription only status of a medicine continues to be justified.
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