PHARMACISTS working for large US corporate groups are expressing concerns over their ability to provide medications safely, due to increasing pressures.
The New York Times reported last week, that pharmacists were feeling the pressure to meet "unreasonable and unsafe" performance metrics, while providing more services with fewer resources.
The publication quoted anonymous letters to State Pharmacy Boards, voicing concerns about the potential for dispensing errors.
"I am a danger to the public working for CVS," one pharmacist wrote to the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.
While another told the Pennsylvania Board that, "the amount of busy work we must do while verifying prescriptions is absolutely dangerous - mistakes are going to be made and the patients are going to be the ones suffering".
Florida Pharmacy Association CEO, Michael Jackson, told The New York Times, that the number of complaints made by members over the last year about staff shortages and patient safety concerns, had been "overwhelming".
Despite pharmacists' reported concerns about their working conditions in the corporate environment, the major groups denied pharmacists were being put under extreme pressure or that they faced reprisals for failing to meet targets.
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