 Re: US Pharmacist wanted to become licensed in GB
It is really good to have colleagues from the USA on this forum. During a visit to Naples Fl, I called in on an independent pharmacy to see how they survive.
The pharmacist told me that at that time they were fighting to retain compounding. I thought this would be mainly ointments, but a later conversation with a Prof from Gainesville elicited a heated response. he was dead against it as he told me pharmacies were preparing capsules and injections with little controls. In the UK compounding of 'specials' has been taken over by 'specials' laboratories and a charge of 100gbpnds is not unusual for 500g of 1% menthol in aqueous cream (actually this one now dead as a company has launched branded version, but still expensive).
I am sure others can give examples of the costs of non standard prescribing.
johnep |