PSNC issues advice on using compliance aids
Pharmacy contractors must make their own decisions about whether to dispense using compliance aids in order to meet their obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, says the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee.
Guidance issued by the PSNC late last week says that there is no contractual
requirement to dispense using compliance aids at a prescriber’s
request. Nor can prescribers expect prescriptions to be dispensed in
instalments except in the case of instalment prescriptions for drug misusers.
In the event that a patient’s medicines are dispensed in a compliance
aid because the pharmacist deems it necessary in order to comply with
the DDA, any changes to treatment before that supply has been exhausted
will need a new prescription to be issued. This, the PSNC says, is so
that a completely new compliance aid can be prepared with the previous
one being discarded to avoid confusion.
The PSNC adds that enhanced services should be commissioned locally if
prescribers want compliance aids to be used for patients who are not
entitled to them under the DDA. |
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