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X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 08:02:43 +1200 From: Dr Jon Wilcox <[log in to unmask]> Organization: Glenfield Medical Centre X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Dispensing practitioners References: <[log in to unmask]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ahmad Risk wrote: > > Would someone with experience running a dispensing practice please send me > a brief synopsis on the operation? Hi Ahmad If you get a reply can you forward it to me also. I am also an ex-pharmacist, and there is a twinkle of interest in extending some of the dispensing practices here with the new "Managed Care" push (euphemism for staffing cutbacks!!) We have looked mainly at the possiboility of dispensing simnple (cheap) one off courses of antibiotics etc. (eg. 1 week of cotrimoxazole should in theory be way cheaper than the minimum Governmment prescription tax here but most people pay the full rate - around UKP5 - with the balance going to the pharmacy. We would probably leave the rest of the scripts for the pharmacists across the road... Regards Jon Wilcox Auckland