The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 268 No 7194 p543
20 April 2002

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Dispensing

Who owns private scripts?

From Mr L. David, MRPharmS

I was surprised to read the Law and Ethics Bulletin concerning the retention of private prescriptions by community pharmacists (PJ, 23 March, p414). A private prescription is the property of the patient and the patient should be able to keep the prescription until the requirements therein are fulfilled. This gives the patient the right to have it dispensed wherever he or she chooses.

I can imagine the destruction of good pharmacist-patient relations if the patient demands his prescription back and the request is refused. I also wonder, if someone took this matter to court, on which side the verdict would be.

May I suggest that the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has the law regarding this repealed so that sanity can return.

Leo David
Hounslow, Middlesex

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