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Regulator Confirms Conscience Clause Remains Unaltered

The General Pharmaceutical Council has issued a statement reassuring pharmacists that the conscience clause in the professional standards, which allows them to refuse to provide services on religious or moral grounds, has not been revised.

The GPhC took the step after reports earlier this week (15 August 2011) in the Catholic press indicated that new guidance meant the opt-out clause had been removed.

In its statement, the GPhC reiterated that it has not altered the existing 3.4 standard, which is the conscience clause of its professional standards of conduct, ethics and performance and which it updated last September.

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Extract taken from PJ Online