[johnep]

Recently, AAH were o/s of Physeptone and supplied the Rosemont brand.
I put it in the sugared section of the methadone reg only to be castigated by another pharmacist who said it should have gone into its own reg. apparently there was a section, but in another register which I never found.

Today I contacted the society legal dept who confirmed to me that entries should be grouped by form and strength only. However, if company policy to separate brands, then this can be done, but not legal requirement at present.

I will check SOP tomorrow (if time!) and see what pharm super says.

Of course from Feb 1st all changes again and legal dept promised will be explanatory bulletin in PJ.

I raised question of patches where it is quite usual to have to supply different brand on an owing and this can give rise to running balance errors.

There is also the question of pharmacies running out of stationery and this happened last week when new item came in and all I could do was put the delivery note in the register. Legal dept said borrow some from another branch.
Very difficult at weekends and Bank holidays.

What is policy elswhere?
johnep