[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 01:47 on 12/09/98
about "RE: Paracetamol":
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>What a crazy way to run a health service.
>Which takes me back to my favourite topic of GP/pharmacy practice
>partnerships.
>If we were both working to a single budget it would make life a lot
easier.
So, what steps should a PCG take to improve the profits to partners
and the benefits to patients, in re-organising pharmacy supplies
within the area of their Firm?
Should Pharmacists be bought out and brought into the Firm as
partners, or employed?
If taken in as partners what supervision should be established
nationally locally or regionally to deal with any perverse
incentives - eg to prescribe and dispense in the most profitable
combinations so as to increase income to the Firm, in which both GP
and Pharmacy partners would share?
What alterations to the laws and regulations governing the supply
and remuneration of Pharmacy are indicated?
>The pharmaceutical police that I know work to the basic ideas of
>Efficacy
>Safety
>Acceptability
>and finally
>Cost.
>If the drug isn't acceptable to the patient,
>it's a total waste because they won't take it.
The pharmaceutical police that I know are paid for the basic ideas of
Cost.
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er, that's it.
The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.
>If the drug isn't acceptable to the patient,
it means the GP has to provide another consultation, but that comes
from a different budget.
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