She suggested that pharmacists, with developed clinical skills, could help reduce the burden on the health service.
Laurentiu Marc, who runs the Bucharest office of a medical recruitment agency, says he was once finding British jobs for 1,000 Romanian doctors, dentists and pharmacists a year.
The new government needs to act quickly to turn around our struggling NHS and we believe huge potential exists in a wider untapped workforce which includes firemen, hairdressers, podiatrists and pharmacists".
Extending prescription rights to nurses and pharmacists is "modernisation" which we can all support.
Nine of the 29 successful bidders are primary and acute care systems, while 14 are multi-specialty community providers (GP practices coming together with hospital specialists, community services, nurses and pharmacists to offer primary and specialist services).
He sees rugby as the perfect springboard to a medical career: "Being a doctor, you work in massive teams of nurses, physios and pharmacists, so the skills you learn from meeting people in rugby crossover nicely.
That might sound like a lot, but Greece's over-generous markups to pharmacists add something like €1.5 billion a year of extra spending to its drugs budget alone.
The pharmacists say that consumers will suffer too, because those who do not live within easy reach of a big supermarket will find it hard to buy medicines.The book trade may shed some light on the pharmacists' future.
Small pharmacists say this is a disaster for them.
All three were developed by pharmacists and sold from soda fountains.
The media tend to reflect the views of vested interests such as pharmacists, doctors and farmers.
