I've just dispensed a prescription for Lariam Tablets on a NHS form. I
mentioned in passing to the patient that this was unusual because I
normally only dispensed it against private prescriptions and that she
had a kind (fund holding) doctor as normally it would cost her over £20
instead of the standard £5.80 government charge.
She told me that she was surprised to get it also, after all she had
only gone in for a vaccination and had merely asked the doctor what she
should buy at the pharmacy.
He told her that because of the situation in Honduras and Nicaragua and
the chance of outbreaks of all sorts of horrid diseases and the fact
that Mosquitoes were no respecters of border controls it was essential
that she took mefloquine and that she could get it on the NHS because of
the overall state of disaster pertaining in Central America.
Is this official policy?
Regards
Jeff Green
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