On 20/05/2016 16:42, Andy Townsend wrote:
On 20/05/2016 16:29, SK53 wrote:
In my experience there are certain prescription which I can only get
fulfilled by a hospital pharmacy (those written by a consultant).
Agreed - and in the case of the one I'm familiar with it's not a stock
issue but a bureacracy one - anything written "upstairs" by a doctor
apparently has to be fulfilled by the (outsourced) hospital pharmacy.
I've never tried to redeem a "regular" prescription there, but they do
sell the normal high-street pharmacist add-ons, so they don't just rely
on the closed shop of hospital-written prescriptions.
All pharmacists offering the standard FP10 ("green form") prescription
service have to be able to dispense all drugs that can be prescribed via
it. That is a licence requirement. That doesn't mean holding a stock of
every drug - for the more esoteric ones, obtaining them to order is
acceptable - but it is good practice to hold stocks of all those that
are likely to be requested regularly. It's unlikely that a hospital FP10
pharmacy would have a stock policy that's significantly more limited
than a high street pharmacy.
However, not all hospital pharmacies are FP10. This, for example, is not:
http://www.yorkhospitals.nhs.uk/our_hospitals/_the_york_hospital/facilities/
As a rule of thumb, if the pharmacy provision is outsourced to one of
the regular High Street names (Stewart Pharmacy and Lloyds seem to be
the most common), then it's likely that it will offer an FP10 service.
If it's in-house, however, or run by a hospital pharmacy specialist,
then it probably won't.
If you were going to map them, then you would need to now the
difference. But, personally, I don't think it is worth it. All hospitals
have a pharmacy of some sort, so mapping them separately is pointless.
Mark
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