Not quite champagne yet

摘要

NEWS that the decriminalisation of dispensing errors may have taken a step closer last week (p667) must be grounds for cautious optimism, if a long way from the cracking open of champagne. Since April 2009, when Elizabeth Lee was given a custodial sentence (albeit suspended) for making a single dispensing error, successive governments have been under pressure for the legislation to be repealed: pharmacists are the only health professionals in the UK who practise knowing that they can face criminal charges purely for making an accidental error.