Dispensing doctors..

[mm45]

Working in a pharmacy today, just across the road from a dispensing doctors surgery. One of their patients comes in with a bag of medicines just dispensed in the surgery and tells me her husband has been told to stop his beta-blocker by a hospital, but yet noone at the surgery knew which drug was a beta-blocker. Well if whoever was dispensing those prescriptions couldnt answer that simple question, well.. I wont even bother going there.

[Linnear]

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I had a dispenser at a DD ring and ask me if there was any difference between Prempak .625 and 1.25!


I kid you not!

[Pharmanaut]

Re: Dispensing doctors..

Working in a pharmacy today, just across the road from a dispensing doctors surgery. One of their patients comes in with a bag of medicines just dispensed in the surgery and tells me her husband has been told to stop his beta-blocker by a hospital, but yet noone at the surgery knew which drug was a beta-blocker. Well if whoever was dispensing those prescriptions couldnt answer that simple question, well.. I wont even bother going there.

Problem here is that you then become liable for your advice. Someone else has got the dispensing fee.

[kemzero]

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Amazing comments....but I thought all dispensers/techs are or supposed to be NVQ qualified..... not good enough
What's going to happen when they are left to hold the fort?

[Pharmanaut]

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Amazing comments....but I thought all dispensers/techs are or supposed to be NVQ qualified..... not good enough
What's going to happen when they are left to hold the fort?

In pharmacies. Yes.

[Linnear]

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Amazing comments....but I thought all dispensers/techs are or supposed to be NVQ qualified..... not good enough
What's going to happen when they are left to hold the fort?

In a DD the dispensing is supervised by the Dr so dispenser can be shorthand typist. (Or always used to be the case, may be different now under PCT jurisdiction)

[admin]

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In a DD the dispensing is supervised by the Dr so dispenser can be shorthand typist. (Or always used to be the case, may be different now under PCT jurisdiction)

In reality the Dr doesn't supervise anything do they? Do you remember that big court case a few years back when the judge said the Dr didn't have to actually check the scripts?

[Linnear]

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I can remember the case where a patient was given Oramorph Conc against a Rx for Oramorph 10/5. The patient died.

So:

1) A dispensing error was made
2) A CD was given out without a legal CD Rx being produced
3) There was a death

The outcome?

In plain English:

The patient was terminal so was going to die anyway so no real harm done.
Dr got a smacked wrist and was asked to ensure that all Rxs were checked by a Dr (which is what should have happened anyway)


I'm sure a pharmacist would have received the same result (and the confirmation of lack of legal pursuance would have arrived by flying pig!)

[Pharmanaut]

Re: Dispensing doctors..

I can remember the case where a patient was given Oramorph Conc against a Rx for Oramorph 10/5. The patient died.

So:

1) A dispensing error was made
2) A CD was given out without a legal CD Rx being produced
3) There was a death

The outcome?

In plain English:

The patient was terminal so was going to die anyway so no real harm done.
Dr got a smacked wrist and was asked to ensure that all Rxs were checked by a Dr (which is what should have happened anyway)


I'm sure a pharmacist would have received the same result (and the confirmation of lack of legal pursuance would have arrived by flying pig!)

Pharmacist would have been hung, drawn and quartered. And then struck off.