The latest Health Act (England only) includes many non-pharmacy powers such as the piloting of personal healthcare budgets, implementing the NHS Constitution and prohibiting the display of cigarettes in shops. For pharmacy it implements the mandatory use of Pharmaceutical Needs Assessments by PCTs to manage control of entry to community NHS contracts and the submission of annual “quality accounts” (both by 2011).

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