�The NPA has responded to the NHS' Wider Release of Prescribing Data Consultation and expressed concern of the release of potential commercially sensitive information which could affect pharmacies neighbouring GP Surgeries.
Margaret Peycke, NPA External Relations Manager aforementioned: "If prescribing data is released at an identifiable Practice grade then not only mightiness some surgeries be identified but in the instances where a single pharmaceutics is close to a surgery; case-by-case pharmacies could be identified. If, as often is the sheath, the pharmaceutics dispenses the majority of prescriptions written by that surgery the business turnover of that single apothecary's shop could be calculated."
Margaret added: "This information could be used by other companies wish to; purchase the line of work; open a new pharmacy business with the Control of Entry regulations for deciding if a pharmacy is necessary or expedient; Open a pharmacy under the Control of Entry exemption clauses e.g. a C hour pharmaceutics."
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