Sign the Petition

Decisions about who can diagnose and prescribe your medicine are being made now, often on short consultation timelines. A petition with verifiable numbers is one of the few ways patients, doctors and pharmacists can show decision-makers how many people care about getting this right.

What we're asking for

1. An independent, evidence-based review before any further expansion.

Expansion of pharmacist diagnosis and prescribing is moving faster than the published evidence on safety, cost and outcomes. We are asking for a review that is independent of both the profession's regulator and its industry bodies, with further expansion paused until that review is complete.

2. A clear separation between prescribing and dispensing.

When the same person diagnoses, prescribes and sells a medicine, a commercial interest enters a clinical decision. We are asking for prescribing and dispensing to be structurally separated, so that no one profits from the sale of a medicine they decided the patient needs.

3. Mandatory, transparent adverse-event reporting.

Hospitals have formal adverse event reporting systems. Community prescribing currently has no equivalent. We are asking for a mandatory, public reporting system so that harms can be detected and learned from. In the meantime, we are collecting reports to help show what is happening.

4. Prescribing within collaborative care.

The international models with the strongest support involve pharmacists prescribing as part of a collaborative team with the patient's GP. We are asking that any pharmacist prescribing role be built around that collaboration, rather than independent prescribing of scheduled medicines without medical oversight.

Why your signature matters

Petitions with real, verifiable numbers are harder to set aside. Every signature tells decision-makers that patients and health professionals expect to be consulted on this, not informed afterwards.