Can a pharmacist refuse to dispense a prescription?

[bobbin]

Good news - if you are in Scotland you can claim BB on part 2, ie dressings!

At the moment we can use an appliance contractor's agency scheme in such cases ie. to obtain 3 dressings only. We are set to lose the agency scheme from next year though and we still won't be able to claim BB on dressings.

[Pharmanaut]

Why aren't you angling for a bloody Scottish forum then.

Actually, if you could use some of that oil to warm the place up to about 10 degrees average, and sell of some rainfall to Morocco, I would certainly live there. The Scots seem to be really effective at doing useful things in pharmacy. And the scenery is pretty good, too!

Actually, not in Scotland, just happened to stumble on this information.
Agree that the Scottish office is more pragmatic.
Probably because the decision making body is the same as the doing body.
In England they are separate.

[Pharmanaut]

At the moment we can use an appliance contractor's agency scheme in such cases ie. to obtain 3 dressings only. We are set to lose the agency scheme from next year though and we still won't be able to claim BB on dressings.

Some half-baked rules will be put in place, and the prescriptions will have to be sorted differently otherwise some random measure will be put in place so that the script will be returned in order to delay payment for the maximum period of time.