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GPs face up to Chronic Medication Service threat

-related counselling and advice from the pharmacist and the chance to have prescriptions serially dispensed 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 ... include TK Brown in Anstruther, whose pharmacist, Amanda Horsburgh, agrees that the CMS will benefit ...

Understanding pharmacy organisations

I recently attended a large commercial exhibition aimed primarily at pharmacists. Representatives ... pharmacy owners. The regional groupings of pharmacists in Scotland are the Pharmacy Contractor Committees. Just to add further confusion, the grouping representing community pharmacists in Northern Ireland ...

Prescribing - Consortia and the NHS's drug spend

four extra tablets. Further investigation showed that this perfectly legal practice by the pharmacist ... , the pharmacist can give any brand and endorse the scrip appropriately. The pharmacist may continue the brand ... of medicine and its cost is left for the pharmacist to decide. There may be huge variations in price: 56 ...

Management - The role of the GP dispensing lead

to be undertaken by a pharmacist in larger practices, we have kept these tasks with an experienced, senior dispenser. I can see the benefits of involving a pharmacist, with their expertise in this area. However ... and the involvement of a GP partner, and I feel adding a pharmacist into the mix may simply cause strain. I meet ...

Prescribing - Avoiding mistakes while dispensing

At a recent Old Bailey trial a pharmacist received a suspended jail sentence for dispensing beta ... rather than the pharmacist's error, the case hinged on legislation that is also relevant to dispensing GPs. The prosecution and conviction of the pharmacist was under the Medicines Act 1968, which does ...

Dispensing - Too little, too late for Scottish dispensing

services are defined as those services provided by a pharmacist on the pharmaceutical list and indeed ... the terms of the law, because there is no pharmacist present. This is interesting as the newly published ... of high profile pharmacists to destroy GP dispensing. We need GPs and pharmacists to work together in a ...

Generic Dispensing - The potential pitfalls of generic substitution

that a pharmacist could substitute a generic drug on a prescription for a brand without consultation ... , as will packaging. To add to this, the generic supplied by the pharmacist or dispensing doctor can change from ... . Pharmacists might also make substitution errors or inappropriate substitutions, begging the question: 'If ...

Scottish pharmacy appeal result

Just before Christmas, the residents of the rural Scottish villages of Leuchars and Balmullo, and their surrounding neighbourhoods, received some unwelcome news. A letter from NHS Fife revealed that the appeal against an application for a commercial pharmacy in Leuchars had failed; the applicant (pharmacist James ...

Funding shortfall threat to future of dispensing GPs

The DoH will cut Category M drug reimbursements as part of a pay deal with community pharmacists for 2010/11. Ministers plan to recoup 120 million through cuts that take effect from October. The deal ... sector pay freeze means the DDRB will not call for a pay rise, he said. Since pharmacists dispensed more ...

Call to ease dispensing rules to boost choice

fair regulations to allow true patient choice. It is then up to pharmacists and dispensing doctors ...

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