Mary Henry (Independent)

The Minister's suggestions regarding education of the medical profession, patients and pharmacists must be followed in this instance. There is no standard dictating that one definitely prescribes penicillin in one instance and a different antibiotic in another. Pharmacists cannot state that a medical practitioner is doing something appalling by taking a particular course of action, or something good by taking another. It would take gross abuse of the use of antibiotics before any pharmacist would consider making a report. The route suggested by the Minister is the only one to take. There must be education for the profession and the public and we will continue from there. I agree with the Minister that this will take ages.