I think you can ...issue script for 'immediately necessary' for drugs supplied from your own stock. That's what we do when we issue during an out of hours session. The Adastra system will even print script with that marked on the FP10 ..:

Dinesh.......

On 30 Sep 2010, at 16:54, John Glasspool <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

My computer says 28 CAPS of erythro cost £15, so not such a vast mark up on that at least.

You cannot, of course, do a PA for tabs I think.

On 30 September 2010 16:30, Saul Galloway <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Am i right in thinking pharmacies can source these sort of standard
drugs at less than tariff anyway, i.e. is there already a margin in
the NHS tariff? + then container and dispensing fee?

On 30 September 2010 16:27, Chris Markwick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Do you not routinely replenish with a personally administered script
> at no cost to yourself?
>
> If they have gone out of date, does that not suggest there is no longer
> a need?
>
> That said, those prices are shocking.
>
> Talking of which is everyone aware how much cheaper levitra is for
> patients compare to viagra?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris Markwick
>
> On 30/09/2010 15:03, Saul Galloway wrote:
>>
>> My drug bag needed refreshing as some items were out of date so as I
>> have done about 4 times before in my career I submitted a private
>> prescription to a local pharmacy marked for drug bad use. As it
>> happens the local pharmacies have been bought out en masse by a large
>> national chain.
>>
>> I am shocked by the prices I have been charged.
>>
>> erythromycin caps 250mg x 56 £54.11 (tariff price either 12.47 or
>> 7.04 for 30)
>> paracetamol soluble tabs x60 £10.63 (tariff price £5.33)
>> diazepam 5mg tabs x28 £4.95 (tariff price £1.12)
>>
>> etc , 100-400% markup on tariff prices across the board.
>>
>> Do I have a leg to stand on (beyond written complaint) or is it simply
>> my fault for not asking for a "quote".
>>
>
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