mistakes in prescriptions!!

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by Zoggite

On thursday I had a script for 112 co-phenotrope tabs, "take 1 QDS PRN for chronic constipation"...
I kid you not!

Now we know why you don't charge for scripts in Wales

Jeff

[Pharmanaut]

Originally Posted by Jeff

Now we know why you don't charge for scripts in Wales

Jeff

Well all the political gain from continually reducing the charge has gone out of it now. Unless you start on minus figures that is.

[N.T]

Originally Posted by Pharmanaut

Well all the political gain from continually reducing the charge has gone out of it now. Unless you start on minus figures that is.

I can see that happening when nurses/technicans start to take sole responsibility for dispensing: paying out compensation with the medicines as they're bound to have got it wrong!

[Zoggite]

You're all just a bunch of envious cynics, the lot of youse!
I really don't know what all the fuss is about, there were only ever 5%(if that...) of patients who paid for their scripts anyway...

[admin]

I remember we once had a young woman admitted to the hospital when I worked there, because she rang up her GP with a low blood glucose reading (I think she a was newly diagnosed diabetic) and was told by him to inject some insulin!

[Pharmanaut]

One had an experienced GP bring back some Glucostix because they were faulty. He had tested them in a solution of 'table' (ie Tate & Lyle/Silver Spoon) sugar.

[admin]

This is a good one, again from my hospital days.....

A guy had hypertension, and his GP prescribed captopril - ACE inhibitor

The captopril gave him a dry tickly cough - well known side effect

The GP prescribed him amoxicillin for the cough

The amoxicillin gave him severe diarhhoea

He became really dehydrated

He ended up in the hospital on a drip

The consultant stopped the amoxicillin, changed the captopril and he went home happy!

Waste of NHS funds or what!

[grumpy]

I have a doctor who constantly prescribed antibiotics wrong!
He keeps giving amoxicillin bd, flucloxacillin tid, erythromycin for acne 250mg daily and metronidazole 1 daily. I often just change it, but contacting the doctor he tells me to change it, except today - erythromycin - that was correct, apparently. Two different people got it in one day! He has days! Co-codamol days, mucodyne days, simple linctus days, otosporin days (one drop bd!!!!).
Don't get me started on eye drops and nasal sprays. Chloramphenicol drops, apply daily.
What can I do about this? I'm told he has been challenged on it many a time, but nothing!!! I have even done it myself with short term results! He always reverts back!!! Retire already!!!

[Linnear]

Are you on good terms with anyone at the PCT?

If you are you could report it to them.

Not sure now on how to whistle blow on GPs. I think the PCT is the best way to go and I'm sure you could do it anonymously.

[Zoggite]

I was on the brink of reporting one GP who was prescribing 100 solpadol efferv. tabs every week to the same patient, despite my repeated queries about the appropriateness of this; then the scripts started turning up on a fortnightly basis instead of weekly, but I subsequently found out from a disgusted receptionist who had quit her job at that surgery that it was because the GP had told the patient to alternate getting his supplies from us and from another pharmacy, "to stop the Chemist asking silly questions...".
This is the same GP who prescribes 120 MST-cont 30mg ,1BD, every month, to one of our patients, but tells the patient to take one tab QDS (unlicenced), stating that he'd get into trouble if he wrote qds on the script...