At today's Council Meeting, RPSGB President Steve Churton said: "Back in 2009 the Society welcomed the news from the Department of Health that new guidance about the decriminalisation of dispensing errors would be published in early 2010.

"To date, no guidelines have been issued and we are growing increasingly frustrated and impatient with the delay. The decriminalisation issue is of key importance to both pharmacists and patients. The new guidelines will encourage the reporting of errors, from which pharmacists and colleagues can learn how patient safety can be further improved.

" The Society is in contact with the MHRA on the matter and continues to press for swift and decisive action by the CPS."

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Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain