Wholesale Dealing Flashcards
What is wholesale dealing
If medicine is sold for the purpose of:
Selling or supplying medicine
Administering it to one or more humans, in the course of a business carried on by the purchaser
E.g selling products to doctors consitutes as wholesale dealing
What are wholesale dealing license
When we sell to anyone that isn’t a patient using the medicine
Issued by the MRHA
Not all community pharmacists possess a wholesale dealers license
What is the exemption for pharmacists to wholesale deal
And requirements
Community and hospital pharmacies can wholesale to other medical practitioners and pharmacies to meet individual patients needs
Requirements:
It takes place on a occasional basis
The quantity of the medicine supplied is small
The supply is made on a not for profit basis
The supply is not for onward wholesale distribution
What important things do we need to no about wholesale dealings
Pharmacists can only wholesale P and GSL if the person buying them if lawfully permitted to sell or administer them to humans
Means we can’t just sell P and GSL to anyone
Who may purchase by way of wholesale
Doc and dentist- POM,P,GSL
Other practitioners- midwives, podiatrists and optometrists
Other organisations
What can midwives purchase for sale
All medicinal products that aren’t POM SOME POMS: Diclofenac Hydrocortisone Miconazole Nystatin Phytomenadione
What can midwives purchase for use in their practise
DIAMORPHINE MORPHINE PETHIDINE Adrenaline Lidocaine Naloxone
Among others
Registered optometrists may purchase the following for sale
All GSL AND P medication
POMs which aren’t for parenteral administration and which:
Are eye drops that contain no more than 30% sulphacetamide, 0.5% chloramphenicol
Are eye ointments with no more than 30% sulphacetamide or 1% chloramphenicol
Fudisic acid, tropicamide, cyclopentolate
Registered optometrist may purchase the following for use in there practise
Amethocaine
Lidocaine
Oxybuprocaine
Proxymetacaine
Supplies of these POMs may be obtained by registered optometrists for use in their practise from a retail pharmacy business subject to a signed order from the registered optometrists
Signed orders
A signed order is required to authorise the sale of supply of a POM, by way of wholesale
E.g. registered optometrists must present a signed order in order to purchase a POM BUT a doctor may purchase without one
However even where an order is not legally required, the RPS advices that for GP reasons we get one for audit trail
Other requirements for wholesale dealing
Only full packs may be supplied- to meet the term of the MA
We cannot wholesale deal products that are unlicensed
The item must NOT be labelled with a dispensing label the packaging already contains all of the nessassary information
What must be recorded
The date of the POM was supplied
Name, quantity, and where it is not apparent formulation and strength of the POM supplied
Name and address of the person to whom the medicine was supplied
Trade, business or profession if the person to whom medicine was supplied
The purpose for which it was sold or supplied
Unique reference number
