§ 70. Mr. Wallaceasked the Minister of Health if he is aware that a shortage of pharmacists in the Hospital Service is forcing hospital management committees to make increasing use of forms EC10, HP, thereby adding to the cost of drugs; and what steps are being taken to ease this position.
§ Mr. LoughlinThe use of these forms now appears to be decreasing. Salary increases agreed for hospital pharmacists in May, and for student pharmacists in October, have been made widely known to the profession and to schools of pharmacy.