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Coroner: Patient dead after ‘tick-box’ online pharmacy prescription

 
• By Kate Bowie

A GP has warned that pharmacies “need” to review patient records before prescribing, during the inquest of a patient who died after obtaining drugs through an online pharmacy.

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“She supplied the required details, rather than her correct details"
Kate Bowie

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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