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Clinical checks

If appropriate, perform a clinical check on the prescription (see Section 4.3.3). [Pg.102]

In addition to the patient s name and details of the ward they are staying on, in-patient orders will usually only contain the name and strength of the drug required. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the ward pharmacist to perform the clinical check on the medication on the ward. This will involve checking the dose and frequency of administration (as details of the dose and frequency of administration will be detailed in the in-patient drug chart). [Pg.104]

For out-patient prescriptions, it is the responsibility of the pharmacist to perform a clinical check on the prescription. This will follow the same stages that are followed when performing a clinical check on an NHS prescription (see Section 3.3.4). The main key difference is that the hospital pharmacy staff will not have access to the patient s patient medical record (PMR) as this is usually held on the computer of the patient s usual community pharmacy. Therefore, it will not usually be possible to check for interactions with previously prescribed medication. In summary, the following points need to be considered ... [Pg.104]

For TTOs, the clinical check (as outlined above) will happen in one of two ways. The first is for the clinical check to be performed by a pharmacist in the hospital pharmacy when the TTO arrives for dispensing (usually accompanied by the patient s in-patient drug chart to enable a full clinical check to be performed). [Pg.104]

Alternatively, the ward pharmacist will perform the clinical check on the ward and sign off the TTO for dispensing before sending it down to the hospital pharmacy. In this case, it would be possible for the items on the TTO to be dispensed by a pharmacy technician and then the dispensing check could be performed by a (second) accredited checking technician (see Section 4.3.5). [Pg.104]

The process of clinical checking for a non-NHS (private) prescription is the same as for NHS prescriptions. This has been covered in Section 3.3.4. Remember that the following points will need to be covered ... [Pg.124]

The following section contains examples of requisitions that may be encountered in a community pharmacy. In each case, the following sections have been completed to guide you through the dispensing process (note that compared to the dispensing of NHS prescriptions (see Section 3.5.2) and non-NHS (private) prescriptions (see Section 5.5.2), there is no need to perform a clinical check (except for some patient-specific written requests from optometrists), check for inter-... [Pg.145]

You dispense the medicine as arranged with the GP and go out to advise Mr Jones about his treatment, the dose change and how to take it, etc. You explain that while it may seem that his prescription was only tablets, each prescription has to be clinically checked and should there appear to be an unusual dose it is a pharmacist s obligation to discuss it with the prescriber. In this instance there had been some... [Pg.223]

On performing the clinical check you see that in Appendix 1 of the British National Formulary there is an interaction between warfarin and cimetidine the cimetidine enhances the anticoagulant effect of the warfarin. Has the patient had this treatment before It is not on her patient medication record, so it is best... [Pg.224]


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