Patient pack size is finally confirmed to be implemented on a voluntary basis on 1st March, and compulsory on 1st Sep 2008.This is a good news for pharmacy. All medicine shall be labeled accordingly, which we can rarely see it being labeled when it is dispensed in the clinic.
Problems of unidentified pills will be solved:
Let say, a patient bring this pill and show it to me and said he want to buy, how can i identify the pill? No name, no marking, no label etc. I would say it is impossible to identify .
Of course unless, he bring these, then at least from the marking i know what it is.
So, there should not be any more cases of patients do not know the name of the medicines that they are taking. Unless the practitioner take out the pills from the blister pack and then cut it 2 times into quarters.. Then it will provide the us the challenge again to identify the pill.
Ask the pharmacist!1) Good things about this type of packing are:
a. It can maintain the products integrity – (eg the product can be identify through its name, the manufacturing / expiry date is on the pack)
b. prevent unnecessary exposure of the product to moisture, air, bacteria etc
c. avoid product contamination due to handling in non-GMP premise (dirty packing area)
d. fewer steps in dispensing process hence less opportunity for errors and improvement in efficiency.
2) I started to feel that dispensing separation is near. If all the medicine dispensed in the clinic can be correctly identified and thus patient can buy it outside in the pharmacy at a cheaper price, would the doctor still want to dispense?
3) I hope i will be right this time.
2 comments:
Like that will be no good loh, less margin.
Actually Drs also open up prepacked BP medicines like norvasc and aprovel...so what's stopping them from doing the same even if this law is implemented?
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