urgently need advice - CD, lost script....

[andrew paxton]

Getting back to the Green script with instalments, it definitely depends on where in UK (Disunited Kingdom) you are, The GP10 is orangey-yellow and while I have never had one with instalments, you can dispense instalments on it, They don't have a Scottish equivalent of the FP10MDA. Other things than the obvious Methadone, Buprenorphine and Diazepam can be dispensed in instalments, though I'm not sure what... (Scots please comment!).
I have been working today in a pharmacy where, taped up in the CD cupboard, is a green FP10 for , I think, Oxycodone Capsules, a month's supply, 'to be dispensed weekly' I asked why they didn't have a blue script for that, and I was told that they had asked, but the GP wasn't co-operative. I'd like to know why they didn't insist that the GP did co-operate!

[johnep]

'why they didn't insist that the GP did co-operate!' Because pharmacy is regarded as a doormat.
johnep

[Defblade]

I have been working today in a pharmacy where, taped up in the CD cupboard, is a green FP10 for , I think, Oxycodone Capsules, a month's supply, 'to be dispensed weekly' I asked why they didn't have a blue script for that, and I was told that they had asked, but the GP wasn't co-operative. I'd like to know why they didn't insist that the GP did co-operate!

I'm not sure oxycodone if can go on a blue form...

BUT GP should certainly have supplied 4 x 7 day scripts.

Also need to keep an eye on the 28-day validity from Rx date - real danger of final dispensing being illegal!

[dan the dealer]

'why they didn't insist that the GP did co-operate!' Because pharmacy is regarded as a doormat.
johnep

Indeed. Same goes with GPs who have not done a DDA and insist on MDS with 28 day scripts. I have a GP who thinks 7 day scripts are illegal. I've yet to get him to agree to a meeting date. It is also my own surgery, which I have never actually had the need to use

[bobbin]

I'm not sure oxycodone if can go on a blue form...

BUT GP should certainly have supplied 4 x 7 day scripts.

Also need to keep an eye on the 28-day validity from Rx date - real danger of final dispensing being illegal!

All Sch. 2 drugs are allowed on a blue script.

If the GP refused to issue either a blue script or 4 x 7 day scripts, I'd just dispense the full quantity at once. Green scripts are not supposed to be dispensed in installments.

[andrew paxton]

True, but I was not dispensing any of them. I just noticed.

[kl06229]

Interesting scenario I've come across.

A CD script has been incorrectly written, but it is late and patient cannot make it back to surgery to pick up a replacement. The pharmacist clarifies the correct dose and decides to dispense part of the script and send it back to the GP to be amended at a later date. When the patient returns next time to collect the balance, it turns out the script has not been returned to the pharmacy. It seems there are two possible reasons 1) surgery never fulfilled the request for the script to be amended 2) the driver hired by the multiple to pick up scripts didn't do his job properly.

Both reasons really tick me off.

[hibernia]

Better to hold on to the script you have (evidence that they don't know how to write a CD script and so put the patient at risk of not being able to get their meds) and ask for a NEW, correct script.
Once you send the script back to be amended there is no proof it ever existed. At least keep a copy, stuck somewhere you'll see it, so that you know to keep chasing the original.