UK Pharmacy Order to be enacted this April.
The Pharmacy Order This April 2018, the Pharmacy (Preparation and Dispensing Errors- Registered Pharmacies Order 2018) has provisionally come into force making changes to the Medicines Act 1968. Passed by the Houses of Lords and Commons last December, the order provides new defences for inadvertent preparation and dispensing errors made by registered pharmacy professionals (registered pharmacists and registered pharmacy technicians, or those supervised by them) working in registered retail pharmacy businesses. The rationale for the implementation of the Pharmacy Order is based on the premise that a reduction in the risk of prosecution…Read more …