Just another update to this ongoing saga. I received a letter from the Chief Pharmacist (from the Pharmacy Head Office) with a list of recommendations made at the pharmacy concerned and that the Pharmacist responsible for the error has to complete a Continuing Professional Development cycle as a result of the incident. This is where the plot thickens because the gentleman from the General Pharmaceutical Council has written to me this week to inform me that the pharmacy has been unable to establish who the offending pharmacist was! Unbelievable! They are withholding information to protect him/her. What about the missing Tramadol? The pharmacist could be addicted (sorry I’m being dramatic I know) and going to different pharmacies and pocketing the odd few because they said he was a locum. I’m not leaving it there, I’ve written to the investigator at the GMC and asked him look into this.....again. A nurse wouldn’t be protected to this extent. And finally the pharmacy hasn’t learned any lessons because 4 weeks ago when picking up a prescription an elderly gentleman was complaining his wife had been given the incorrect medication. He said is was double the prescribed dose and his wife’s GP said if she’d taken one it could have killed her because she’s so ill. I don’t suppose this has been reported.
🦞 Locked down no longer but still firm friends 🦞
