MEP Jun 23 Exam,

Question 1

You work a Saturday shift in a local pharmacy from 9am to 5pm. One Saturday evening at 4.55pm, one of your regular female patients walks into your pharmacy and asks you for emergency supply of Gabapentin 100mg capsules. She tells you that she has a lot of nerve pain and that she did put in a request for her repeat but the prescription was not quite ready yet. What would be the most appropriate next line of action?

A. Tell her to wait til Mon to collect her Px
B. Sell her some Ibuprofen and tell her to wait til Mon
C. Give her an emergency supply of Gabapentin for 5 days
D. Refer to another pharmacy for an emergency supply as you are about to finish work
E. Ask the lady to NHS 111

Answer 1

E.
B - Nerve pain. NSAID not useful.
C - cannot supply Schedule 2 or 3 CD emergency except for phenobarbital (CD 3, epilepsy) Gabapentin in schedule 3.

Question 2

Consider following about Responsible Pharmacist and choose which options are LEGAL requirements.

1. Signing in and out of the RP register
2. Recording near miss errors in the near miss logbook
3. Displaying the RP notice in a pharmacy
4. Stating a reason in the register if a RP chooses to leave/absent from the pharmacy briefly during their shift.

A. Y, N, Y, Y
B. N, N, N, N
C. Y, N, Y, N
D. Y, Y, N, N
E. Y, Y, Y, Y

Answer 2

C.
1. Y,
2. N,
3. Y,
4. N, Marking time legal, reason is not necessary.

Question 3

Newly Qualified PHA would like to find out a lot of info about drug interactions regarding various medicines prescribed in UK

Answer 3

E. Stockley’s
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A. Medicines compendium/emc- PIL, SPC
B. Maudsleys guidelines - mental health meds
C. British pharmacopoeia - AI, excipients used in meds. Storage info, melting/boiling point
D. Martindale: The complete drug reference - major european languages to English

Question 4

According to the GPHC, pharmcists and pharmacy technicians must adhere to nine GPHC Standards for Pharmacy Professionals.

One of these standards relates to safeguarding people, particularly children and vulnerable adults.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four principle categories of child abuse as stated by GPHC?

A. Emotional abuse
B. Modern slavery
C. Neglect
D. Physical abuse
E. Sexual abuse

Answer 4

B.