 Ethical dilemma An elderly patient is keeping her Alzheimer's a secret from her family; the patient's daughter is making it increasingly difficult for you to respect her wish for confidentiality, what do you do? |
 Ethical dilemma After a night out with colleagues, inappropriate pictures and remarks have been posted on Facebook. What is your next step? We reveal the vedict |
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Ethical Dilemma After a night out with colleagues, inappropriate pictures and remarks have been posted on Facebook. What is your next step? |
 Ethical Dilemma Can you prescribe diabetes medicines even though you specialise in respiratory care? An expert offers advice |
 Ethical Dilemma Can you prescribe diabetes medicines even though you specialise in respiratory care? |
 Ethical Dilemma A young man hands you a metronidazole prescription and says he'll start taking them after a stag do. Readers and experts offer advice |
 Ethical Dilemma A young man hands you a dental prescription for 21 metronidazole 200mg tabs i tds. You counsel him to avoid alcohol, but he's going on a stag do and proposes to start taking them after the weekend. How would you reply and what are the consequences of your choice? |
 Ethical Dilemma A patient has had a severe allergic reaction to a medicine you dispensed. There is no PIL in the box. Are you liable for a medicine's side effects? Is the missing PIL important? |
 Ethical Dilemma A customer comes into the pharmacy waving a plain box labelled amoxicillin and threatening to sue you. What should you do? |
 You have become increasingly worried about a pre-reg trainee's attitude. What would you do? |
 Ethical Dilemma You have become increasingly worried about a pre-reg trainee's attitude. What should you do? |
 A customer asks for 'non-drug' treatments for hayfever, specifically homeopathic remedies. What would you do? |
 Ethical Dilemma A customer asks for 'non-drug' treatments for hayfever, specifically homeopathic remedies. What should you do? |
 A local GP comes in to your pharmacy with a private prescription for ciprofloxacin; the problem is the prescription is for the GP. What would you do? |
 A patient keeps requesting an emergency supply instead of going to his doctor. What should you do? |
 When your pharmacy technician drops your only bottle of methadone and it smashes, what should you do? |
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A pharmacy technician drops your only bottle of methadone – what would you do in this situation? The best suggestions will be printed in C+D, along with expert legal advice on what the consequences of your choices could be. |
 A strength is missing from a prescription for a child's antibiotics - and the surgery is closed. You told us what you would have done in this situation and a legal expert gives their advice |
 We asked how you would cope with language difficulties in your pharmacy, but you were stumped on this tricky dilemma. We turned instead to the experts for their views on the matter |
 A Practical Approach article on dispensing errors sparked furious debate on C+D’s website. Now you tell us what you would have done |
 What would you do if you faced this dilemma in your pharmacy? Let us know your suggestions by commenting below or emailing Chris.chapman@ubm.com . The best answers and suggestions will be printed in... |
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Should you agree to sign in early as RP so that a technician can pre-prepare scripts? Read your responses as well as the legal advice to this week's ethical dilemma. |
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This series aims to help you make the right decisions when confronted by an ethical dilemma. In the last issue of every month we present a scenario likely to arise in a community pharmacy and ask a... |
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The dilemma Mr X collects daily methadone from your pharmacy. His girlfriend, Miss Y, consumes her doses under the pharmacist’s supervision. Mr X comes in for his Saturday and Sunday supplies. He... |
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The dilemma: Miss X, who is 25 and single, comes into the pharmacy at 1pm. She asks to see the pharmacist for the morning after pill. It is her third day since unprotected intercourse. She is... |
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The dilemma: Mr X has type 2 diabetes and takes various oral medications plus insulin. He uses the pharmacy’s prescription collection service, leaves his repeat request slip at the pharmacy and... |
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This series aims to help you make the right decisions when confronted by an ethical dilemma. We ask a member of the Pharmacy Law and Ethics Association to comment on the legal and ethical... |
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This series aims to help you make the right decisions when confronted by an ethical dilemma. Every month we present a scenario likely to arise in a community pharmacy and ask a member of the Pharmacy... |
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This series aims to help you make the right decisions when confronted by an ethical dilemma. Every month we present a scenario likely to arise in a community pharmacy and ask a member of the Pharmacy... |
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Next month’s Ethical Dilemma: Issuing unlicensed medicines The dilemma A regular client of the pharmacy comes in to complain after a long spell in hospital. She claimed the... |
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The dilemma “Are pharmacists shopkeepers or healthcare professionals, ie should they promote two for one offers on medicines that people use regularly or should they use professional control to limit... |
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The dilemma A patient has just brought you a prescription written by the local paediatric consultant for her 12 year old son. The prescription is for 150ml omeprazole 10mg/5ml liquid. You realise that... |
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The dilemma You receive a repeat prescription from a local surgery on a Friday afternoon. The prescription is for MST but has not been dated. You take it back to the surgery for amendment but are told... |
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This series aims to help you make the right decisions when confronted by an ethical dilemma. Every month we present a scenario likely to arise in a community pharmacy and ask a member of the... |
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The dilemma You notice your job share pharmacist colleague has made a couple of dispensing errors. Are you legally required to notify your manager and record them or should you just have a quiet... |
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What would you do if you faced either of these two dilemmas in practice? Let us know your suggestions by commenting below. The best answers and suggestions will be printed in C+D, along with expert... |
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Fitness to practise Noor Mohammed Zafar Shaikh, registration number 2059250, has been struck off the pharmacy register after refusing to pay back £26,000 in wages he wrongly received from the Co-operative Pharmacy, and "dishonestly" poaching patients while working at a separate business. |
 Supply chain MPs have slammed those responsible for the medicines supply chain, saying they have an “air of resignation” about stock shortages and have dismissed the problem as “either inevitable, or as having been inherited from the previous government”. |
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A contractor has been left more than £450 out of pocket after the Department of Health (DH) refused to reimburse him the full price for a special, despite recognising that it had made an error in... |
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British people could be missing out on vital nutrients by relying too much on ‘beige food', a study from the Proprietary Association of Great Britain (PAGB) has found. The survey of 3,000... |
 Practice The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is promoting "totally the wrong messages" by calling for a role for pharmacists in all GP surgeries, Independent Pharmacy Federation chair Fin McCaul (pictured) has argued. |
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With his local surgeries having gone live with EPS release two last month, contractor Ravi Patel couldn’t help feel a bit disappointed after all the hype |
 As the sector battles Stormont in the courts over funding cuts, Emma Weinbren asks how long Northern Ireland can last with a £40 million pharmacy funding hole |
 In part two of our look at the RPS one year on, Melanie Hall asks president Martin Astbury whether it has improved pharmacists’ lives – and why they should join |
 The pharmacy jobs market is in trouble, experts agree, but what's causing the over-supply of pharmacists, and is it such a bad thing? James Bloodworth reports |
 In part one of our look at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society a year after it became a voluntary body, Melanie Hall asks if contractors feel it is delivering value for money |
 Fears pharmacy will be sidelined by clinical commissioning groups have prompted some independent pharmacies to join forces |
 With this week being Coeliac Awareness week, pharmacist Babir Malik created signposting guide for newly diagnosed coeliacs |
 We’ve repeatedly been told that revalidation is just around the corner, writes Dr Livingstone, but quite frankly the false promises are driving me round the bend |
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With his local surgeries having gone live with EPS release two last month, contractor Ravi Patel couldn’t help feel a bit disappointed after all the hype |
 Does being open 60, 80, 100 hours a week or providing 400 MURs a year equate to being at the heart of your community ask Gary Paragpuri |
 From contract woes to commissioning strife, there’s plenty of issues pharmacists would like answers on. James Bloodworth puts your questions to PSNC chief executive Sue Sharpe |
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