The idea of having registration with the pharmacy has civil liberties
implications. It means that if a patient wants his script dispensed in
another town he/she has to carry some kind of registration card. It also
means that the regular pharmacist has access to the information that the
patient has visited a certain town on a particular date. The British have
traditionally allowed citizens more frredom than that.
I realise other methods of surveillance are going on in Britain with little
protest. Apparently the cameras on some motorways are linked to OCR
equipment and the vehicle registration databases, allowing a printout of the
owners of vehicles passing a given point.
The pharmacy registration seems a high price to pay for little gain and
should be resisted by the "common man".
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Stephen Crawshaw
Townsville, Australia.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Martin & Rosemary Strange <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, 27 September 1998 4:44
Subject: RE: Pharmacy registration
>I would like to post a vote for patient registration. I think the possible
>benefits outweigh the drawbacks. In the example quoted, I do not think that
>registration should by necessity stop Mr Bloggs from going to whichever
>pharmacy he wants to, especially if he feels he has good reason. Provided
>he recognises that his personal pharmacy does not now have a complete
>medication record, and a mechanism to notify his doctor that the script has
>been collected is in place.
>
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