PPM Flashcards
Pharmacy technician role :
prepare and dispense and place orders and make phone calls to doctors and healthcare providers to ask about pateint and their medication.
Accredited checking rechnician role:
Accurately makes orders, reduces error during dispensinng
Dispenseing assistant:
Assists in dispensing and stock control, re stocking dispensary and ordering
medicines counter assistant:
Help with prescriptions, talk to patients, order stock, load and unload delivery
Brand ambassador potentially
Give patients health advice
Community pharmacist role:
- Ensuring requiremetns for medicine storage and supply are met
- Ensuring prescriibed medcines are safe by:
Adivsing healthcare professionals how to select the best medicine fir the patient.
Monitoring patients oncertain medications
counselling patients on how to use their medication safely and providing advice on mangainging any side effects. - Offering health advice to patients through a range of clinical services
- Travel advice and vaccines and jabs
- Writing SOP’s for everyone
- educating and training collegaues and potentially managing staff if theres no “manager”
What does “medicines reconciliation” mean ?
Acccurately listing a persons mediccines (E.g. when treatment changes)
What does “medicines formulary” mean ?
Compounding and testing medication
What are radiopharmacaeutical products used for ?
used for diagnosis
What is the “ Duty of Candour” ?
Pharmacists have a professional duty to be “open and honest” with patients if things go wrong.
Whats a common fitness to practice problem ?
Criminal convictions
What was thalimode prescribed for ?
Tranquiliser, cold flu, nausea and morning sickness in pregnant women.
What is thalidomide prescribed for TODAY ?
AIDS
targeted cancer drug
Leproy
What are SmPCs ?
Summary of Product Characteristics
Key component of the marketing authorisations for drugs authorised in the EU.
What does the MHRA do ?
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
They regulate medicines and medicinal devices.
Trades description act 1968:
Offence to sell products/ service based on misinformation
What is English legal system made up of ?
Strucutre law and common law
What is structure law ?
Primary and Secondary legalisation
What is common law ?
Case law
based on principle of justice.
Primary legalisation:
Main laws passed by legal bodies in UK
E.g. medicines act 1968
parliament
Secondary legalisation:
Created by ministers and other bodies (council)
E.g. The medicines ( Pharmacies) (Responsible Pharmacist) Regulations 2008
- secondary legalisation can me made very quickly
To create a new law (parliament process) :
1) Green paper ( creating new law or change to existing law)
2) White paper (Test public opinion and gather feedback before presenting a “bill” to parliament)
3) Bill (Proposed new law presented to parliament)
What are the 4 different types of law ?
1) Criminal
2) Civil
3) Administrative
4) Professional
what is a tort ?
A civil wrong
most common one is negligencce
What is the Standard of proof required for criminal and civil law ?
Beyond reasonable doubt - criminal law
Balance of probabilities - Civil law
What does HMR stand for ?
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
HMR overview:
States that medicines can only be supplied to the public from pharmacies except OTC drugs.
- Also cover the labelling of medicines and containers and how drugs are advertised.
- 17 regulations
THR :
Traditional Herbal Registration
What is “pharmacovigilance” ?
monitoring and safety of drugs in clinical use and, taking appropriate actions to minimise risk.
How long are MA’s granted for ?
usually 5 years or less
off label drugs ?
licensed medicines, which are being used outside of the terms of it’s marketing authorisation.