In message <[log in to unmask]>, Jeff Green <[log in to unmask]>
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>Ewan Davis wrote:
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>> Some GP systems (certainly TPP SystmOne) will allow you to prescribe at dm+d
>> AMPP (actual medical product pack) level which will allow prescribing of a
>> particular brand or manufacturer.
>I see loads of generic scripts where a manufacturer is specified.
>Overwhelmingly it is for no reason and is ignored. (Just like the word
>AEROSOL that seems to appear under hypromellose eye drops 0.3% scripts.)
How do you know it is for no reason - and who is liable if a dispenser
ignores a prescriber's instructions?
And how on earth does "AEROSOL" get attached to eye drops?
Where does the word appear? On the prescription or the pharmacy system?
If on the prescription is it one practice, one system or random?
Impossible forms being prescribed reminds me somehow of EDLs - and are a
patient safety issue!
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>> AMPP's are often excluded from picking
>> lists as in is not generally desirable to prescribe a particular brand of
>> generic and it may require some extra keystrokes to get them to display. I a
>> pretty confident that this approach will work with ETP.
>At my end of the system ETP hides information that was on my PMR - stuff
>like which brand of diltiazem.
Aren't slow release diltiazems among the things that should not be
prescribed generically?
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>It's not all bad though - it stops some of the common pharmacy errors
>like repeating last months script when the dose has been changed.
How? It doesn't seem to round here!
Mary
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>Jeff
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