Oral requisitions

Supplies of medication will normally take place via a written requisition (colloquially known as a signed order, although the term is somewhat misleading as most written requisitions do not actually need to be signed). However, it is also permissible for some individuals to request medication supply verbally. The oral requisition of medication is covered in Section 5.3. 

In addition to written requests by a variety of healthcare practitioners and other authorised individuals (see Section 5.2), some requests for the supply of medication do not have to be written down (i.e. via a written requisition). These are termed oral requisitions. 

This chapter has covered the key points it is necessary to be familiar with in order to supply medication via non-NHS prescription forms (private prescriptions) and via both written and oral requisitions. This has included details on who... 

The specificity of the host defence elicited by killed vaccines has been attributed to the O-antlgenic specificity of the vaccine strain (44, 45). Experience with live oral vaccines in mice (46, 47) and man (48) has convincingly demonstrated that also here the presence of the O-antigenlc polysaccharide chain is an important requisite for a protective host response. 

This chapter covers similar material to Chapters 2 and 3, focusing on non-NHS supply, including the supply of medication against private prescription forms and the supply of medication via oral and written requisitions. 

It is good practice to make an entry in the prescription-only medicines register at the time of supply it is only a good practice requirement as the requisition will be retained within the pharmacy for two years from the date of supply (the exception to this is for Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 controlled drugs see Section 6.3.6). However, if the request for the supply of a prescription-only medicine (POM) was an oral request (see Section 5.3) the prescription-only medicines register entry would be a legal requirement (as there is no paper requisition detailing the sale to keep for two years). 

Acrylic resins are the materials of choice for almost all dental applications wherever synthetic plastics are favored for the restoration of missing teeth or tooth structures. This is not surprising because polymers derived from methacrylate esters fulfill most requisites of a restorative adequate strength, resilience and abrasion resistance dimensional stability during processing and subsequent use translucency or transparency simulating the visual appearance of the oral tissue that it replaces satisfactory color stability after fabrication resistance to oral fluids, food or other substances with which it may come Into contact satisfactory tissue tolerance low toxicity, and ease of fabrication into a dental appliance. 

Several recent studies have demonstrated the potential of cadmium to cause prostate cancer in rats. Systemic cadmium exposure, including oral exposure, results in adenomas of the rat prostate (Waalkes et al. 1988a, 1989 Waalkes and Rehm 1992). It appears that normal testicular function, i.e., androgen production, is requisite for development of cadmium-induced prostatic tumors. 

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