Ms Yvonne Goff:

The ePharmacy programme has just begun. We are considering three pillars, the first of which is the national drug catalogue. The second is e-prescribing in the community and a third concerns pharmacy within the hospitals. Of the group of 200 clinicians, 19 are pharmacists and another subgroup comprises doctors who are interested in pharmacy. They have come together and are considering a solution that would address everyone's needs. For instance, Deputy O’Connell asked a question about patient choice. In England, as she is aware, they started with no patient choice and a patient was obliged to go to a certain pharmacy but they now are in a different phase in which they are broadening out the patient choice. Again, to revert to the point made earlier by Mr. Richard Corbridge, although we are slow to the game, we have the benefit of learning from other countries and will continue to so do. We definitely do not have all the solutions with regard to the ePharmacy programme. It is at the beginning and it is being scoped out at present.