Now here's a radical idea...

Pharmacists reject GP lead's criticism of MURs

2013-04-29T21:19:21Z

In this case (I have but once found it necessary) a report to the GP is fully justified, and usually appreciated by the GP. I think what Dr Gerada was getting was those pharmacists who regard MURs as a complete medicines review ( and there are quite a number of those) instead of what they are, a USE REVIEW, and so bombard the GP with totally unnecessary interventions

Welcome to the pharmacy of the future

2013-03-26T23:26:25Z

X-Rayser, an alternative view. Thanks to the heavy snow caused by climate change, your solar panels simply could not work. With an erratic mains supply due to the failure of the government to build new power stations to replace those closed in 2013/14 by EU green diktats, your robotic dispenser is suffering continuous problems, and your computers constantly crash., You are reduced to entering all prescriptions in a big ledger, typing your labels on a manual typewriter, physically counting all the pills your patient needs because your polypill synthesiser is on the blink and technical support is promised for sometime in the new year. You struggle to read the written scripts you have to work with because the e-script system suffers the same problems and misdirected scripts have caused several fatalities, and GPs have forgotten how to write a script.
Luckily you qualified many years ago, and unlike the new crop of registrants, you still know how to do the job manually.

Pharmacists brand CRB checks ‘impractical’

2012-11-23T23:15:10Z

In this last week I have spoken to both the GPhC and RPS and both assured me that the whole issue is still a gray area, and that they do not want to get involved in organising CRB checks. Nor does the PDA. As far as I understand the issue, CRB checks are location specific, which means that a locum need a separate check for each and every store worked in. Obviously this is wildly impractical and typical of the fuzzy thinking employed by our lawmakers. It is time the RPS porved its worth and got a ruling on blanket coverage with one CRB for those of us who locum.

GP strikers in danger of own goal

2012-06-16T20:55:26Z

When Politics enters any equation, common sense invariably flies out of the window. It is not about Labour or Conservative, it is all about the incompetent professional politicians we have been suffering for the last 15 years. Doctors striking? Whatever next? Doesn't their Hipocrytic oath figure somehwere?

Now here's a radical idea...

2012-05-20T21:44:52Z

To Paul Thomas. If you as a doctor actually dispensed......! But you only still write a note and your dispensing technician dispenses, your practice nurse takes care of all the other things like taking blood samples, treating minor wounds etc etc etc. What you really mean is that you do not like being forced to send the profits of dispensing away from your surgery.
Forty years ago I wrote an article in the South African Pharmaceutical Journal proposing the very thing that Gary has now proposed, but no GP wants to give up what he/she considers their God-given right to not only mis-diagnose but mis-prescribe as well.