1.   Collaboration between the royal society and family health services authorities would be a sensible way forward in improving dispensing standards.

2.   Contact your local health authority for details of the scheme in your area.

3.   Cooperation between general practitioners and district health authorities requires mutual accountability.

4.   Does the health authority have any provision to assist young people to acquire the necessary academic qualifications for entry to nurse training?

5.   Every family health services authority should enter into discussions with its general practitioners to establish guidelines for the employment of counsellors.

6.   Family health services authorities have a key role in helping general practitioners to achieve these outcomes.