Thread: Drug Errors
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Old 21st, November 2006, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
That would require the pharmacist to be the one doing the labelling and for the pharmacist to be labelling from the repeat screen.
Now the idea of a Lloyds pharmacist doing a MUR while the prescription was prepared and checking it at the end does not seem to be beyond imagination.
I am not aware of anything in the Lloyds proceedure manual that insists that scripts be labelled from the repeat sceen - or that the pharmacist does the labelling - but I might be mistaken.

Jeff
Well in that case either the dispensing staff are morons for not putting a note on to say that the dose had increased dramatically, or the pharmacist was a moron for not telling the staff to note down any dose changes. Or the SOPs are wrong if they don't say anything about what to do when there is a dosage change. Whatever the case, someone should have picked up that the dexamethasone dose had changed.
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