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Recycling
Recycling without compromising patient safety
From Mrs Y. H. Taylor, MRPharmS
The “Live Earth” concerts around the world last weekend
have focused on recycling. In reply to the letter from Barry
Shooter (PJ, 7 July, p17), the intentions of my
original letter (PJ, 30 June,
p773) need some explanation.
First, a manufacturer would need to be sourced which could design prescription
baskets with side flaps that could be folded over the top of the baskets
once medicines had been checked.
A red basket could be used by pharmacists for prescriptions that might
lead to a medicines use review or intervention, a yellow basket for accredited
checking technicians and other technicians and a white basket by counter
staff. The shelves in the dispensary may need to be widened to accommodate
the baskets that could be stacked on the shelves.
Secondly, the recycling bags or semi-rigid containers, similar to wine
boxes used by supermarkets, would be used solely by the customer for
collecting their dispensed medicines. Again a manufacturer would be sourced
which could supply the bags or containers of three or four sizes depending
on the number of medicines collected.
These would be issued to the customer from the pharmacy and reissued
after a suitable interval, eg, six months.
Hopefully, having addressed these concerns, the pharmacy profession might
be able to recycle without compromising patient safety.
Yvonne Taylor
Shoreham-by-Sea,
West Sussex |
The
Pharmaceutical Journal