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What does a Pharmacy do with a prescription?

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  • 31-01-2010 8:13pm
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    Compudaro
    Registered Users Posts: 299 ✭✭


    Hope I picked the correct thread to post this question! Just wondering what do pharmacies in Ireland do with prescriptions? They "fill them", give you back the medication and then what? Do they send it back to your doctor or file it or what?

    Thanks in advance


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    angeldelight
    Registered Users Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭angeldelight


    If the prescription is finished i.e. has no repeats put on it by the doctor, or the number of repeats has been reached then the pharmacy needs to file it. Every prescription needs to be kept for 2 years (if it was a veterinary prescription it would be longer). It needs to be kept on the premises, it's written into legislation. If the Pharmaceutical Society were to do an inspection this is one of the things they'd check. After the 2 years they're shredded


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    Compudaro
    Registered Users Posts: 299 ✭✭Compudaro


    Wow, thanks for the detailed and swift response - I'm enlightened!


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    locum-motion
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    Compudaro wrote: »
    Wow, thanks for the detailed and swift response - I'm enlightened!

    Our wee Angel is quick off the mark!


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    angeldelight
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    I do my best ;)


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    Delancey
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    Fascinating and bizarre that Veterinary prescriptions have to be retained for longer ! Why is this so ?


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    spurious
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    I regularly get repeat prescriptions which reach the end and they are never taken from me.
    Is this a new law?


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    Kurtosis
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    delancey42 wrote: »
    Fascinating and bizarre that Veterinary prescriptions have to be retained for longer ! Why is this so ?

    As far as I know the rationale is having traceability etc. for medicines used in food producing animals.


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    locum-motion
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    spurious wrote: »
    I regularly get repeat prescriptions which reach the end and they are never taken from me.
    Is this a new law?

    Nope. They're supposed to be taken off you and retained in the pharmacy that dispensed it on the last occasion.


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    bleg
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    Great to see such interest in pharmacy on this forum!


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    FluffyCat
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    Vet prescriptins are kept for 5 yrs as you could give medicine to an animal then kill it and then freeze the meat for a number of years. They are kept longer in case of any problems


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