In no way do I wish to undermine the points about patient
confidentiality that Ewan so eloquently illustrates, but I would like
to explain how prescriptions are handled at our local practice.
They are collected from the surgery in village A or from our village
B PO by someone from the pharmacy in village C - the dispensed
medicines are returned to the PO for collection.
This is surely a far from secure system. It is however
immensely convenient and enormously popular. But I suppose the point
is that the security risks are obvious to the patients who choose to
use it.
Jane Thomas
PRODIGY Communications Officer
The Sowerby Unit for Primary Care Informatics
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