3. Legislation And Professional Issues Flashcards
What consolidates most of the legislation regulating the authorisation, sale and supply of medicinal products for human use, made under the medicines act 1968?
The human medicines regulations 2012
Name the three classes of medicinal products for humans under the human medicines regulations 2012
General sale (GSL) Pharmacy (P) Prescription only (POM)
Why is there restrictions on the quantities of selling pseudoephedrine and ephedrine?
Due to their potential for misuse in the illicit production of methylamphetamine (Crystal meth) - a class A controlled drug
Max quantity of pseudoephedrine that can be sold without a prescription
720mg
Max quantity of ephedrine that can be sold without a prescription
180mg
True or false: you can sell a pseudoephedrine product at the same time as an ephedrine product
FALSE - this would be unlawful
Licensing for levonorgestrel 1500mcg (EHC)
For women aged 16 years or over for emergency contraception within 72hours of unprotected sexual intercourse or failure of contraception method
Licensing for ulipristal (EHC)
Emergency contraception within 120 hours (five days) of unprotected sex
Legal restrictions of non-effervescent paracetamol tablets OTC?
Not more than 100 - most pack sizes are 16 or 32
Legal restrictions of non effervescent OTC aspirin
Not more than 100 - most are packs of 16 or 32
Pack size of OTC codeine and how many days can it be used for?
32
3 days
Name two antitussives
Dextromethorphan
Pholcodine
Name two expectorants
Guaifenesin
Ipecacuanha
Name 5 nasal decongestants
Ephedrine Oxymetazoline Phenylephrine Pseudoephedrine Xylometazoline
Name 6 antihistamines
Brompheniramine Chlorphenamine Diphenhydramine Doxylamine Promethazine Triprolidine
17 yr old wants codeine linctus for dry unproductive cough
No! Has to be 18 or over
7 legal requirements on a prescription
Signature Address of practitioner Date Particulars of practitioner Name of patient Address if patient Age of patient (if <12)
Private prescriptions for a POM must be retained for how long from the date of the sale or supply or for repeatable prescriptions from the date of the last sale or supply?
2 years