The Pharmacy Practice Regulations lay down pharmacist staffing as a stepped scale that rises with hospital bed strength, smaller hospitals need only a handful of pharmacists, while larger ones require proportionately more to safely cover dispensing, drug information and clinical pharmacy duties across more beds. As the bed count climbs through the smaller slabs toward the 201 to 300 bed range, the prescribed minimum staffing reaches ten pharmacists, which is the number fixed for a hospital with up to 300 beds. Numbers like 5 and 8 belong to smaller hospitals lower down the scale, while 15 corresponds to a slab above 300 beds.
Therefore, the correct answer is 10.