Pharmacy Legislation & Law

Question 1

What are the legal requirements for a prescription?

Answer 1

-Signed and written in ink, dispensed within 6 months, name, address, age if under 12, address of prescriber and prescribers particulars

Question 2

What is SLS medication?

Answer 2

-Drugs that can only be prescribed in certain circumstances for certain conditions must be endorsed as SLS

Question 3

What is the ACBS?

Answer 3

-Advisory Committee On Borderline Substances- Products such as food, things that will improve quality of life but won’t treat condition

Question 4

What are the 3 things you assess on a prescription regarding the product?

Answer 4

-Is it permitted on the NHS, can the prescriber prescribe it?, is it on a valid NHS prescription

Question 5

Who is responsible for issuing licensing on medication?

Answer 5

-MHRA will issue a marketing authorisation

Question 6

What are the requirements for a product to be classified as POM?

Answer 6

-Direct or indirect risk to health even when used correctly without supervision, frequently used incorrectly which leads to harm, further investigation needed

Question 7

What are packaging requirements?

Answer 7

-name of medicine, dosage/strength, route of administration, warnings, indication

Question 8

What are the blister pack requirements?

Answer 8

-Name, strength/form, expiry and batch, holder of MA

Question 9

What are the dispensing label requirements ?

Answer 9

-Name & address of patient, name and address of pharmacy, date of dispensing, name of medicine, directions for use, precautions, signature

Question 10

Where do you find the black list and SLS?

Answer 10

-Drug Tariff

Question 11

What act protects workers from reprisals, dismissal act after the disclosure of concerns in the publics best interest ?

Answer 11

-Public Disclosure Act 1998

Question 12

When does duty of candour apply?

Answer 12

-When both of the conditions are met:

1) the service user has suffered an adverse outcome
2) the provision of healthcare may have been a factor in the service user suffering that outcome

Question 13

What is real consent?

Answer 13

-Consent that is full, free from duress and reasonably informed

Question 14

What act enables treatment to be given to mentally incapable patients?

Answer 14

-Mental Capacity Act 2005

Question 15

What is PIDA?

Answer 15

-Public Interest Disclosure Act- approach to raising and escalating concerns

Question 16

What is the importance of raising concerns?

Answer 16

-Duty of care, protecting the people receiving care, public safety

Question 17

What do you do in the event of a dispensing error?

Answer 17

-Establish if any medication taken, inspect incorrect med, apologise, never minimise seriousness, supply correct med if appropriate, establish expectations, provide complaint details if requested, try and establish wheat went wrong

Question 18

How do you assess capacity?

Answer 18

-Person to be able to: Understand information, remember it, use and weigh up information provided, communicate decision back to you