Our local drug agency offers addicts 'pick and mix' where they have the choice of various brands of syringes. Recently, one addict complained that he did not like the syringes in the 1ml packs (Terumo) and wanted B-D instead.
He thought we could reissue the syringes. The assistant put them in the doop bin explaining that nothing returned to the pharmacy could be reused, and gave him 10 B-D syringes. The others are now wasted.
Naturally, our local PCT are vastly overspent.
Pts on the repeat scheme sometimes say that they do not want all of the items, but others just gaily carry on having them all and finally they are returned unused in carrier bags.
Trays are also returned with unused pts, all going to waste.
Of course the PCT refuses any drug not specified by NICE, in an effort to save money.
johnep
He thought we could reissue the syringes. The assistant put them in the doop bin explaining that nothing returned to the pharmacy could be reused, and gave him 10 B-D syringes. The others are now wasted.
Naturally, our local PCT are vastly overspent.
Pts on the repeat scheme sometimes say that they do not want all of the items, but others just gaily carry on having them all and finally they are returned unused in carrier bags.
Trays are also returned with unused pts, all going to waste.
Of course the PCT refuses any drug not specified by NICE, in an effort to save money.
johnep
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