OTC and POM Flashcards
What is a GSL?
GENERAL SALES LIST
may be bought from retail stores, such as a newsagent, a supermarket or a
vending machine in a shop.
What is a P?
PHARMACY
an intermediate level of control, can be bought only from pharmacies and
under a pharmacist’s supervision.
What is a POM?
PRESCRIPTION ONLY MEDICINE
has to be prescribed by a doctor or other authorised health professional and
it has to be dispensed from a pharmacy or from another specifically licensed
place.
What are some examples of self selected medicines?
- Over-the-counter (OTC) medicines
- Herbal products
- Vitamins
- Dietary supplements
- Recreational drugs (e.g. alcohol and tobacco)
What act led to legislation for regulations to medicine?
Human medicines regulations 2012
What are the benefits to having medicine categories?
- quick relief of the disorder
- individual can exercise autonomy and choice
- rapid and convenient access to medicines
What are some of the barriers to medicine categories?
- potentially troublesome or serious side effects
- possible misdiagnosis and delay in correct treatment
- potential harm from misuse
What is the role of the medicine counter assistant?
sale of non-prescription
medicines, receipt of prescriptions, handing out of completed
dispensed items and giving advice on health matters
What is the function of the pharmacy assistant?
functions involved In dispensing
What is the role of the pharmacy technicians?
technical functions involved in the preparation
and supply and dispensing of medicines. They are also qualified to sell
OTC medicines and provide information to customers on symptoms
What is the role of the accuracy checking technician?
check the accuracy of
prescriptions dispensed by another staff member before the
medicines are given out to patients
Where are GSL’s sold from?
- pharmacies
- outer pharmacy
What are the conditions of selling GSL’s?
- the premises can be closed to the public
- the medicine was packaged elsewhere
- outer packaging has not been opened
What is the legal maximum limit of pseudoephedrine?
720mg
+ cannot be sold with ephedrine
What is the legal maximum prescription of ephedrine?
180mg
+ cannot be sold with pseudoephedrine
What are some signs of possible misuse?
- lack of symptoms
- rehearsed answers
- opportunistic
- specific products
- quantities
- frequency
What is a legal issue in terms of non effervescence tablets?
cannot sell more than 100 non-effervescence tablets
(3 x 32 packs = 96 maximum)
what is the legislation surrounding effervescence tablets?
No legal limit on quantity of OTC effervescence tablets
Who can prescribe?
- doctors
- dentists
- community practitioner nurse prescribers
- independant prescribers
- supplementary prescribers
Legal requirements of codeine and dihydrocodeine?
- short term of acute treatment
- no more than 32 unit dose
- can cause addiction
- for 3 days only
What are the prescription types?
WP10 = Gp
WP10D = dentist
WP10CN = nurses prescribing from Nurse Prescribers’ Formulary for Community Practitioners
WP10SP = supplementary prescribers
WP10IP = independant prescribers
What can you prescribe?
- Licensed drugs (POMs, Ps, GSLs, foods, toiletries or cosmetics)
- Off label and off licence medicines
- Unlicensed medicines
- Controlled Drugs (CDs) – Year 2
- Some appliances or chemical reagents
- Selected List Scheme medicines (SLS)
- Borderline Substances (ACBS)
What are 5 questions to ask about a prescription?
- nature of product
- prescriber type
- dental or nurse prescribers formulary
- form type
- prescriber endorsements
