Union reveals battle plan to defeat rise of remote supervision.

The article reports on the opposition of the Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) to the plan of British government to allow pharmacies to be remotely supervised. The union has pledged to defeat the responsible pharmacist legislation, which will take effect in October 2009. According to PDA, the measure could establish new criminal offences for pharmacists and pave the way for them to supervise dispensing operations without being physically present in pharmacies.