The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7293 p415
3 April 2004

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· Veterinary pharmacy
· Indemnity insurance
· Methadone
· Excipients
· Self-prescribing
· Pharmacist prescribing
· Sugar in medicines
· NMS

Letters to the Editor

Pharmacist prescribing

Let us get on with it

From Ms J. Fawcett, MRPharmS

I cannot get excited about a hospital pharmacist prescribing a medicine for constipation under the guidance of a consultant geriatrician, with paperwork signed in triplicate and the patient reviewed daily and reassessed by the doctor after a week (PJ, 27 March, p369). Community pharmacists have been “prescribing” for constipation for just the price of the medicine since pharmacy began.

If we are to be allowed to prescribe in certain instances after obtaining the necessary qualification (a pharmacy degree and experience), let us get on with it.

Jacqueline Fawcett
Halifax, West Yorkshire

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