Week 4

Question 1

What are the NHS Wales core values?

Answer 1

Putting quality and safety above all else
Integrating improvement into everyday working and eliminating harm, variation and waste
Focusing on prevention, health improvement and inequality
Working in true partnership with partners and organisations with staff
Investing in staff

Question 2

What are OTC medicines?

Answer 2

Over the counter

Question 3

What are self selected medicines?

Answer 3

Over the counter medicines
Herbal products
Vitamins
Dietary supplements
Recreational drugs

Question 4

What is human medicines regulations 2012 a regulation for?

Answer 4

Authorisation of medicinal products for human use
Manufacture, import, distribution, sale and supply
Labelling and advertising
Pharmacovigilance

Question 5

What marketing authorisation is responsible for including how a product is available?

Answer 5

Medicines and healthcare products regulatory agency
MHRA

Question 6

What are the categories of sales of medicine?

Answer 6

GSL (general sales list)
P (pharmacy)
POM (prescription only medicine)

Question 7

Who is the pharmacy staff?

Answer 7

Medicines counter assistants (MCAs)
Dispensing/ pharmacy assistant
Pharmacy technicians
Accuracy checking technicians

Question 8

What do medicines counter assistants do?

Answer 8

Sale of non-prescription medicines, receipt of prescription, handing out of completed dispensed items and giving advice on health matters

Question 9

What do pharmacy technicians do?

Answer 9

Preparations and supply and dispensing of medicines

Question 10

Where can otc medicines be sold?

Answer 10

Always from pharmacies
Premises that can be closed from the public
As long as the medicine was packaged elsewhere
Outer packaging has not been opened

Question 11

Where are p medicines sold from?

Answer 11

Registered pharmacies by a pharmacists or person acting under supervision of a pharmacist

Question 12

What are p medicines used for?

Answer 12

For short term treatment of medicinal conditions
For management of some long term conditions

Question 13

How does a pharmacy medicine change into a general sale list?

Answer 13

Where the hazard to health, the risk of misuse, or need to take special precautions in handling is small and where wider sale would be a convenience to the purchaser

Question 14

Prescription only medicines to pharmacy medicine?

Answer 14

A medicine will be non-prescription unless it fulfils certain criteria for prescription control

Question 15

What is the criteria for prescription control?

Answer 15

A direct or indirect danger to health exists to human health, if used without medical supervision
There is frequently incorrect use which could lead to direct or indirect danger to human health
The product is normally prescribed for parenteral administration

Question 16

What are the signs of possible misuse of medication?

Answer 16

Lack of symptoms
Rehearsed answers
Opportunistic
Specific products
Paraphernalia
Quantities
Frequency

Question 17

What is the human medicines regulation 2012 relating to prescription only medicine?

Answer 17

A person may not sell or supply a prescription only medicine except in accordance with a prescription given by an appropriate practitioner

Question 18

Who can prescribe?

Answer 18

Doctors
Dentists
Independent prescribers

Question 19

What can be prescribed?

Answer 19

Licensed drugs
Off label and off licence medicines
Unlicensed medicines
Controlled drugs
Some appliances or chemical reagents
Selected list medicines
Borderline substances

Question 20

A prescription must be…

Answer 20

Signed in ink
Written in ink or indelible
Dispensed within six months

Question 21

What are the legal requirements on a prescription?

Answer 21

Name of patient
Address of the patient
Age of the patient (if under 12)
Signature
Date
Address
Particulars

Question 22

What are the packaging requirements?

Answer 22

Name of the medicine
Expression of strength
Route of administration
Dosage
Warnings

Question 23

What is required on blister packs?

Answer 23

Name
Strength and form
Babies, children or adults?
Common names (if up to three active substances)
Expiry date
Batch number
Holder of the marketing authorisation

Question 24

What is required on dispensing labels?

Answer 24

Name of patient
Name and address of the supplying pharmacy
Date of dispensing
Name of the medicine
Directions for use
Precautions relating to the use of the medicine

Question 25

Since when have patient information leaflets been a requirement?

Answer 25

1999

Question 26

What is contained within a patient information leaflet?

Answer 26

Identification of the medicine
Therapeutic indications
Information necessary before taking the medicine
Dosage
Description of side effects
Additional information

Question 27

What information is necessary before taking the medicine?

Answer 27

Situations where the medicine should not be used
Precautions
Warnings
Interactions with other medicines or food
Information for special groups of patients
Any effect the medicine may have on the patients ability to drive

Question 28

In a healthier wales, what is the main emphasis on?

Answer 28

wellbeing
prevention
early intervention
use of technology

Question 29

how much pseudoephedrine can be supplied?

Answer 29

720mg

Question 30

how much ephedrine can be supplied?

Answer 30

180mg

Question 31

how many noneffervescent tablets or capsules can be sold at any one time?

Answer 31

no more than 100

Question 32

how many codeine and dihydrocodeine can be supplied?

Answer 32

no more than 32 unit doses