Some things are amazing!

[Pharmanaut]

Didn't realise this until the other day, when we got a script for one.
You can give a bog standard oral syringe out with any prescription, but you can't actually dispense one when ordered on a prescription.

Why?

Because it is a device and as such must be listed in part IX of the E/W Drug Tariff.

Have a good bank holiday weekend.
Don't worry it will soon be christmas.

[Defblade]

You can give a bog standard oral syringe out with any prescription,

We are only funded to a level that (roughly, i.e. according to DuH) is equivalent to supplying a syringe with those scripts that are not a complete 5ml (or multiple thereof) dose.

So, yes, you can give out with any prescription but you're giving them away free if it's 5mls.


For anyone who says "I've GOT to have one, how can I possibly give medicine to my baby otherwise?" I like to point out they were introduced to the NHS in about '93 or '94 (came in when I was working in Bristol for a year) and people have managed to give stuff to babies for 10,000 years before that so they'd probably manage. Or they're 50p each.

[Pharmanaut]

We are only funded to a level that (roughly, i.e. according to DuH) is equivalent to supplying a syringe with those scripts that are not a complete 5ml (or multiple thereof) dose.

So, yes, you can give out with any prescription but you're giving them away free if it's 5mls.


For anyone who says "I've GOT to have one, how can I possibly give medicine to my baby otherwise?" I like to point out they were introduced to the NHS in about '93 or '94 (came in when I was working in Bristol for a year) and people have managed to give stuff to babies for 10,000 years before that so they'd probably manage. Or they're 50p each.

Your description of DoH as DuH - most appropriate! <g>

[howe928]

We are only funded to a level that (roughly, i.e. according to DuH) is equivalent to supplying a syringe with those scripts that are not a complete 5ml (or multiple thereof) dose.

So, yes, you can give out with any prescription but you're giving them away free if it's 5mls.


For anyone who says "I've GOT to have one, how can I possibly give medicine to my baby otherwise?" I like to point out they were introduced to the NHS in about '93 or '94 (came in when I was working in Bristol for a year) and people have managed to give stuff to babies for 10,000 years before that so they'd probably manage. Or they're 50p each.

for 2.5ml, do you give double ended spoon (charge 50p if asked for oral syringe)or oral syringe free?

[Defblade]

for 2.5ml, do you give double ended spoon (charge 50p if asked for oral syringe)or oral syringe free?

Oral syringe free. That's the DT/NHS contract position. Tho I'd offer the choice - not everyone wants the syringe anyway.