[ymdawd]

Shocking it most certainly is but surprising..NO.!

Most community pharmacies could probably come up with similar occurences. I can think of a couple of cases today where prescriptions were blindly generated again after first being issued a couple of days previously. Clearly the surgery does not check its records properly, if at all. That alarms me greatly because it happens so often. Best practice - you must be joking. How can it be when they show a complete inability to learn from their errors.

I have often tried to reason with GP's & surgery staff about this but to no avail. Simply put they do not see it as a problem. What is more they will get away with it too. I pride myself on knowing when I am hitting my head off a brick wall.