Requesting a retrospective prescription from a GP

摘要

You are the responsible pharmacist at a community pharmacy. One morning, you find a note from the locum pharmacist who worked the previous evening. They have reguested the team source a new prescription from a local GP surgery for a medicine dispensed as oral solution, rather than tablets, as specified in the original prescription. After speaking with the locum, you discover the patient came into the pharmacy atl8-.00 with a prescription for tablets of a regular medicine. However, the pharmacy only had stock of the oral solution. The patient required a dose of medication for that evening and had none left at home.