Practical Exercises in Pharmacy Law and Ethics

by Appelbe, Gordon E.; Wingfield, Joy; Taylor, Lindsay M.

• ISBN13: 9780853695226
• ISBN10: 0853695229
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Pharmaceutical Pr

Summary

Practical Exercises in Pharmacy Law and Ethics has now been revised and updated. It is a companion volume to Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy Law and Ethics, to which it is cross-referenced. This edition provides undergraduates, preregistration students and practising pharmacists with problem-solving exercises that will enable them to improve their understanding of pharmacy law and ethics. Throughout, readers are directed to the relevant sections of Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy Law and Ethics, thus helping students to answer examination questions and to address real-life situations in pharmacy practice. The text is divided into three levels: 1. questions and answers on pharmacy law for undergraduate students; 2. questions and answers on the law and ethics of pharmacy for undergraduate and preregistration students; 3. for registered pharmacists, examples of systematic in-depth professional decision-making.

Author Biography

Gordon E Appelbe is an independent pharmaceutical and legal consultant. Joy Wingfield is Boots Special Professor of Pharmacy Law and Ethics at the University of Nottingham. Lindsay M Taylor is Clinical Governance and NHS Information Manager in Coventry.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xi
Level 1	1	(60)
The history of the development of current legislation that affects pharmacists	3	(1)
The scope and administration of the Medicines Act	4	(2)
Definitions used in the Medicines Act	6	(4)
The licensing system of the Medicines Act	10	(3)
The controls on advertising medicinal products to the general public and to professionals	13	(2)
The classification and sale of P and GSL products	15	(3)
Labelling a `P' medicinal product for sale	18	(3)
Labelling a dispensed medicine	21	(2)
The labelling of medicines for sale that are exempt from POM and controlled drug controls by limitations as to maximum strength, dose and form	23	(2)
A labelling summary	25	(1)
The Medicines Act requirements for POM supplies	26	(3)
The wholesale supply of POMs	29	(1)
An emergency supply of a POM at the request of a patient	30	(3)
An emergency supply at the request of a doctor	33	(2)
The general requirements of the Misuse of Drugs Act	35	(2)
The authority to possess and supply under the Misuse of Drugs Act	37	(3)
Prescription requirements for controlled drugs	40	(2)
The supply of controlled drugs other than on a prescription	42	(4)
The sale and supply of spirits in England, Wales and Scotland	46	(3)
The sale of non-medicinal poisons: general	49	(3)
The Poisons Rules and Schedules	52	(2)
The sale of Schedule 1 poisons	54	(2)
The sale of Schedule 1 poisons with extra controls	56	(1)
The sale of chemicals	57	(4)
Level 2	61	(62)
The questions are grouped in sections, as indicated below, according to the legislation they cover. The order of topic areas is the same as for Level 1. An asterisk next to the description of the question indicates that it is a multiple-choice question. The number of asterisks indicates the classification of possible answers
Instructions to enable you to answer the four different types of MCQs used in the registration exam	63	(2)
The Medicines Act
Applying the definitions of the Medicines Act 1968 to help in an everyday situation	65	(1)
A summary of the conditions affecting the sale of P and GSL medicinal products	66	(2)
Under what circumstances can a controlled drug be sold as a P medicine?***	68	(3)
A revision exercise in the labelling of P medicines for sale	71	(3)
A summary of labelling requirements***	74	(5)
POM medicines: what can legally be supplied to whom?	79	(2)
The legal requirements for POM prescriptions	81	(3)
The legality of a veterinary prescription for a POM****	84	(3)
An `emergency supply at the request of a patient'?	87	(2)
The Misuse of Drugs Act
The legal restrictions imposed on preparations of controlled drugs	89	(3)
The Misuse of Drugs Act and the destruction of controlled drugs	92	(3)
Legal requirements for controlled drugs prescriptions**	95	(2)
The sale of poisons and chemicals
The sale of Schedule 1 poisons with extra controls: sodium cyanide	97	(3)
The Code of Ethics
The Code of Ethics: a preliminary consideration of key and personal responsibilities and other professional standards, service specifications and the additional practice guidance	100	(2)
The legal and ethical considerations to be made when selling chemicals	102	(4)
The Code of Ethics and additional guidance: the provision of professional services****	106	(3)
The Code of Ethics: the sale of substances liable to abuse****	109	(6)
Introduction to Questions 18-20	113	(2)
Miscellaneous legislation affecting pharmacists
The `tenets' of Clinical Governance**	115	(3)
Miscellaneous legislation affecting pharmacy: the Data Protection Act 1998	118	(2)
Miscellaneous legislation affecting pharmacy: the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974	120	(3)
Level 3	123	(2)
Introduction to Level 3 problems	125	(3)
Professional decision-making	128	(6)
How to work through the problems	134	(3)
Who decides what is an emergency?
The weekend visit of the mother who has diabetes	137	(7)
Rational decisions: palliative care versus drug abuse
The clumsy toddler and the spilt medicines	145	(6)
A real emergency
The teenager and the coleslaw salad	151	(6)
Recycling medicines for the Third World
The priest in Ethiopia	157	(6)
Protecting the reputation of the profession
The residential home and the `rogue' tablets	163	(6)
Responsibility for the supply of unlicensed medicines
The child and the Phenergan Elixir	169	(8)
Responsibility for the supply of unlicensed medicines (2)
The midnight telephone call from the neonatal ward	177	(8)
The NHS contract; responsibilities of the superintendent
The blizzard in the Yorkshire Dales	185	(6)
Duty to protect the public, even from pharmacists
The locum and the bottle of whisky	191	(6)
Duty to protect the public, even from pharmacists (2)
The European locum and the hospital staff	197	(8)
Duty to protect the public, even from other healthcare professionals
The contraindication and the confident practice nurse	205	(8)
Accountabilities of an employee; duties of a superintendent
The non-pharmacist manager and the sales of codeine linctus	213	(6)
A matter of confidentiality
The suicide and his girlfriend	219	(6)
A matter of confidentiality (2)
The friend in hospital and her anxious mother	225	(6)
Private beliefs and patients' needs
The adolescent girl and the Levonelle	231