06 Nov 2009
Active input from a GP can improve the running of the dispensary, writes Dr Jeremy Phipps....role for a GP. This may simply involve being the named doctor for the Dispensing Services Quality Scheme (DSQS), which requires a nominated partner or salaried GP, but in most practices one doctor ...
and the involvement of a GP partner, and I feel adding a pharmacist into the mix may simply cause strain. I meet ...
03 Mar 2011
| by Dr Hal Maxwell
Dr Hal Maxwell says that belated measures to protect GP dispensing fail to remove the threat facing...Historically, dispensing in Scotland by GPs has been primarily in rural areas where populations ...
.
In these circumstances health boards 'required' GPs to provide a medicines dispensing service to their patients.
What in many practices started off as a GP handing out pills from a cupboard in the consulting room developed ...
12 Feb 2010
A failed appeal could jeopardise a village's GP practice, but all is not lost, writes Alan Kennedy....have centred on its impact upon the local GP practice, which has branch dispensing surgeries in Leuchars and Balmullo. The opening of a commercial pharmacy leads to the end of GP dispensing services; the GPs warn this could result in the surgeries becoming uneconomical to run, and having to close, a claim ...
22 Apr 2010
GP dispensing can continue for a year from the date of a pharmacy opening, writes Alan Kennedy...., a more recent application to open a second commercial pharmacy within the GP practice's branch ...
Andrews or elsewhere, they will no longer be able to make use of the Leuchars GP dispensing services ...
the current pharmacy decision processes to public input and public scrutiny. Dispensing GPs affected ...
than predicted over the past year, GP dispensers were likely to have seen a similar rise, Dr Baker said ...
said profits that some GPs relied on to keep branch practices open could disappear.
Dr Baker said he hoped to begin talks with the DoH over the impact of the changes.
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26 Mar 2010
Scotland's CMS could disadvantage dispensing GPs, writes Ailsa Colquhoun....hopes that the service will improve working relationships between GPs and pharmacies. This will optimise ...
by the pharmacist on a 24- or 48-week basis. At the end of the agreed term, the patient's GP is sent an end- of ...
summary also acts as a trigger for an annual medication review by the patient's GP, which will count ...
21 May 2009
there is already a GP dispensing practice. Over the past months, I have written about the initial launch and early progress of this vital petition ( GP, 19 February and 26 March) and would like to update dispensing doctors on its momentum. The petition's aim is to ensure that dispensing GPs and the public have a ...
21 Feb 2011
| by Susie Sell
Rules that limit when people can register as dispensing patients at GP practices do not fit...with the regulatory framework for dispensing practices.'
A dispensing GP who asked not to be named said ...
for some patients.
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27 Jan 2011
| by Dr Jeremy Phipps
The proposed abolition of practice boundaries will mean a more uncertain future for GP dispensing...GPs may dispense medicines only if certain criteria are met and, under the NHS Act 1977 ...
the nearest pharmacy is the best-known criterion for GP dispensing, but patients must also live in a rural ...
that practices can dispense without prior agreement with the PCT.
No one yet knows hows GP dispensing ...
17 Mar 2011
| by Dr Jeremy Phipps
Lead GPs must be pragmatic when advising practices on cutting prescribing costs. By Dr Jeremy...With the advent of GP consortia, practices are keen to present themselves as cost ...
important. With GPs rather than PCTs taking the lead, prescribing is likely to be studied more pragmatically ...
to fulfil the Med 6 and Med 10 parts of the QOF - could seem somewhat removed from a GP's usual work ...
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