 Drug Errors- High court ruling 11/nov/2006
Dear colleagues
The judge in the recent Dexamethasone case ruled in favour of the plaintiff, unfortunately lloydspharmacy might be lumbered with a £5m compensation bill ....they are planning to appeal .
Technically the pharmacist dispensed what the Doc prescribed but the judge ruled that he did not follow company protocol (check dose suitability etc) this indicates that pharmacists have a duty of care towards patients ( which I am sure we all know) but to what extend , it was not a dispensing error , it was a clinical error which the pharmacist should have conveyed to the prescriber (judge's ruling) .....the million dollar question is how would this affect remote supervision and future community pharmacy practice if our necks are on the line for both clinical & dispensing errors ? By the way there is another similar case in the pipeline ....
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