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UK Pharmacists?
Assalaamu alaykum!
I'm new'ish to naseeb and have just joined the village.
Are any members in the UK?
Would love to hear from you
Wa salaam
I'm new'ish to naseeb and have just joined the village.
Are any members in the UK?
Would love to hear from you
Wa salaam
Comments on this journal
Hmm...YUCK :P
Yep i am a retail locum and it gets busier for store based pharmacists not us guys because their not allowed to hae any holiday during november n december..but ive got sum workin coming in i will b working alot of the public holidays at the end of the year including a 3 hr rota on xmas day lucky me..btw how r u guys getting on with cpd....
whats always so annoying is you get at least 3 letters from the company telling you bout it, so u assume the GP knows..but nooooooooooo, they live on different planet where the postie doesnae come! lol
Ethically if caps are prescribed, you can only dispense caps. Same for tabs, if tabs are prescribed, you can only dispense tabs.
What's going to happen is that the Flomax caps are running out/have run out...so pharmacists are sending scripts back to GPs to change the scripts to tabs so that they can dispense Flomaxtra.
In a couple of months, one of the generic suppliers will probably release caps, which will be much cheaper.
By then, all the patients will already be on tablets, so the Pharma companies will have retained their sales.
It happened with Cardura when the XL came out just before patent expiry.
Disgusting, huh?
Are you a retail locum? I thought it would be getting busier as Xmas approaches? :P
Ive got the day off locum work drys up during the winter months hope ur all not working too hard........
Im from the UK too..work part time for boots.........and locum the rest...early start 2moro so better hit the sack....you guys have a good day.......byee
PI are a whole arena of problems themselves..we get sooo many px coming back saying we gave them wrong stuff cos we give PI's on some brands.
When i asked an independant bout this, they said their px dont really say much..must be only Boots Px!!! lol
Flomax...i contacted my local PPA and they said we were ok to endorse PC on Rx, and i then faxed all local GP's bout the change, but guess what...me still flomax Rx...lol
sorry salms...no excitement bout zoton as yet..lol
In practice, I doubt that this will have any serious adverse implications.
I didnt know abt the marketing ploy...I thought I read that on the PSNVC website, who are meant to be independant. Will look into it. As for PI's...it may well be available but unfortunately the PPA dont recognise PIs so when it comes to endorsing FP10 scripts they're likely to return them to the contractor without payment :( Red tape, I tell you!
Hmm not that excited about Zoton ;)
Have you ever worked in retail? I've never done hospital...I guess its probably too late now to start to be honest. Khayr, so far so good! :)
How long have you been qualified? :)
Khayr Mubarak!
Yeah, it's all about money. We can't even substitute Flomax MR for Flomax scripts as they have different bioavailabilities. So contacting a GP for every script? Grr...only to find out that a generic Tamsulosin will be launched in a couple of months anyway! ARGH! There should be a law against this! Happened with Cardura and Cardura XL...PLOO!
Yeah, management comes with enough hassles, especially in Boots. I wonder how things will change structurally with the Boots Alliance merger? We shall soon find out...
Are you small store/large store? I think I've asked you this before...but am getting old :P
I iron on a prn basis :P
Wa salaam!
poor me has been busy makin the khana (food) since my mum still in pak, and its been well busy in roza..ended up makin curry at 11pm..hai hai
but back to normal now, and my mommy cming back next week..yahoooooooooooooo!
life at boots is still carrying on, had enuff of management tho, so spoken to my area manager and will inshallah move back to being easy pharmacist by end of month if they get their butts in gear..
and y do all these bloody companies keep changing the meds?!?!?
first gaviscon, now flomax..hai hai all these annoying patients who think its my fault...kya karoo, kise se kahoo...ok me going back to my ironing now
byeeeeeeeeeee
Neither...I currently work for one of the pharmacy software companies...how about you Salms?
Mairah you've been quiet lately? :P
Maybeeeeeee we should start a UK Pharmacists Village!
And we could have a right moan about the closure of Birdsgrove House there! Hehe!
u and me r prob the only uk ppl on this..lol
nobody actually posts on this village and if they do, they are all bout mad american conventions in chicago! but u neva know, might make it there some day too! hehehe