GPhC confirms dispensing error policy as C+D readers admit regular errors
Practice The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has backed plans to decriminalise inadvertent dispensing errors and restated its commitment to ensuring that single dispensing errors are not a fitness to practise concern.
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has backed plans to decriminalise inadvertent dispensing errors and restated its commitment to ensuring that single dispensing errors are not a fitness to practise concern.
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"Anything that acts as a disincentive to the disclosure of adverse incidents, including dispensing errors, is detrimental to public safety", said Duncan Rudkin, GPhC chief executive. "This is why the GPhC has made clear that single dispensing errors would not in our view constitute a fitness to practise concern, if there was not a wider pattern of errors or significant aggravating factors." The comments will be welcome news for C+D readers, who this week confirmed the frequency of dispensing errors. Thirty seven per cent of respondents to an online poll admitted to making a dispensing error as often as once or twice a month, with 43 per cent saying they made an error once or twice a year. Just 15 per cent claimed that they never make errors, while 4 per cent said they make a dispensing error less than once a year. |
Duncan Rudkin: "Single dispensing errors would not in our view constitute a fitness to practise concern" |
As previously reported by C+D, the MHRA has confirmed its commitment to introducing a "due diligence" defence that would help protect pharmacists from automatic criminalisation for dispensing errors.
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