Despite the importance of medicines and vaccines during this pandemic, pharmacist voices have not cut through when it comes to the public discourse.
The Drug Tariff in England and Wales lists most medicines which can be prescribed and dispensed against an NHS Prescription .
Without looking on your PMR system or the BNF or any other source, would you know what to dispense to the patient?
This survey has been developed and designed by Sarah Cameron in partnership with Pharmacy in Practice.
The case arises from the death of a young man following a methadone overdose in April 2020.
The Drug Tariff contains various information regarding the prescribing, dispensing and reimbursement of medicines and appliances on NHS prescriptions.
Though 2020 has come with plenty of challenges, it has also provided some new avenues – or widened avenues that already existed.
Community pharmacy is changing with the times. New technologies are being introduced, focuses are shifting & new ways of working are developing rapidly.
Looking back now five years on from when I wrote the article below I am no less moved by the terrible findings of the NRAD in 2014.
Scotland became the first country in the world to make legislation which effectively means the provision of free period products to those who require them.
