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Post by jimmy20 on Oct 31, 2019 14:20:48 GMT
I don't know if this is the same nationally but here if the pharmacist is absent then prescriptions and some medicines cannot be dispensed or sold My regular prescription comes in from the GP, the pharmacist dispenses the medicines, and it sits on the shelf waiting to be collected. But again, althought the pharmacist has personally made up the contents, if he or she is absent the other staff cannot give it to me This has caused problems recently as the pharmacist at our Chemist comes to work by public transport and due to recent problems has some days not been able to get to work until nearly lunch time |
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Post by rondetto on Oct 31, 2019 19:29:42 GMT
We are trained that the responsibility is with the person who dispenses the drugs must be the one to either administer or to make certain the patient is the one to receive it. Sometimes during in training a trainee may dispense the drugs but he or she must ask the qualified pharmacist to check
the prescription and hand it over to the patient.
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Post by jimmy20 on Oct 31, 2019 20:16:28 GMT
To me it is just a waste of people's time I remember the time when doctors did almost everything that nurses were not allowed to. For expediency those rules were relaxed and nurses now do a lot of things previously not allowed As far as I know nobody has suffered because of this, these pharmacy rues and regs will eventually be relaxed |
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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Nov 1, 2019 7:53:07 GMT
Until someone sues a chemist's assistant for wrongful prescribing.
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Post by althea on Nov 1, 2019 17:34:16 GMT
We have our prescriptions delivered.On the rare occasion I have to go the pharmacy,any member of staff will hand me the drugs.I wonder if this is peculiar to Wales.
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Post by jimmy20 on Nov 1, 2019 17:55:57 GMT
We have our prescriptions delivered.On the rare occasion I have to go the pharmacy,any member of staff will hand me the drugs.I wonder if this is peculiar to Wales. Here our pharmacy is starting to stop home deliveries unless the patient is housebound, I think they used it to build up their customer base When the staff hand you your medicines is the pharmacist on the premises?
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Post by althea on Nov 4, 2019 18:58:09 GMT
The pharmacist is on the premises,but she is usually far too busy to notice what is happening in the shop.
Sometimes I can walk over and collect the prescriptions,but there are odd days when I can't walk.
So it is easier to have deliveries all the time. They can't cope with complicated arrangements over there.
They often get things wrong.
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Post by skylark on Nov 12, 2019 19:58:30 GMT
The rules seem archaic. Often the most convenient time to collect my prescription is between1 and 2 when the pharmacist is at lunch. The drugs are sitting in a paper bag, on the shelf, presumably having been checked before they got there, yet one is allowed to give them to me.
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