The sale of pharmaceutical products under the control of a pharmacist

摘要

A method is disclosed of enabling a pharmacist to control and supervise a proposed sale of a restricted pharmaceutical product (RPP), by a sales assistant to a customer, where the pharmacist is sited at a location remote from the sales assistant's point of sale. The method includes the steps of: the sale assistant using a computer terminal to transmit data about the proposed RPP sale over a data link to a computer terminal of the pharmacist as a request for the pharmacist's authorisation to make the sale; the pharmacist viewing and assessing the data about the sale; the pharmacist, as necessary, requesting via his computer and data link further information on which to base a decision to allow the sale; and the pharmacist making a decision on the information about the proposed product sale and either transmitting to the sales assistant's terminal authorisation for the sale to go ahead or transmitting a signal which blocks the sale and prevents the customer from being permitted to have the RPP.