A declaration for NHS medicines delivery volunteers to sign

Written by admin on Friday 24th April 2020

Having NHS volunteers deliver medicines is not straightforward, so legal expert David Reissner suggests a statement for them to sign to ensure things run as smoothly as possible

 

We must welcome the NHS England volunteers helping to deliver medicines to patients from community pharmacies, but using them isn’t straightforward.

David Reissner, Chair of the Pharmacy Law & Ethics Association suggests requiring those wishing to help pharmacies in person to sign a declaration. An example draft has been shared below:

This is a word document so that pharmacies can amend the document as they seem fit.