The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 266 No 7150 p749-752
June 2, 2001

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Packaging

Where are our dispensing skills?

From Mr P. J. Nock, MRPharmS

Periodically, The Journal carries letters concerning the similarity in design of patient packs containing very different drugs. The authors write at some length about how this phenomenon causes dispensing errors and confusion among patients on multiple drug therapy and how the whole patient pack initiative has led to an increase in both of these.

I remember, not so long ago, that tablets and capsules came in near identical grey plastic bulk packs and were dispensed into identical amber tablet bottles. And yet I do not recall having read much about dispensing errors back then.

Philip Nock
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

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