Our GP co-lead says it\u2019s \u2018concerning\u2019 that antibiotics may have been inappropriately prescribed through Pharmacy First.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Steve Taylor said it underlined the \u2018significant challenges\u2019 of prescribing to patients whose medical history \u2018is not easily accessible or understood\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was providing comment to Pulse Today<\/a> for its report that the General Pharmaceutical Council had received concerns important checks were \u2018not fully considered\u2019 before medicines were supplied. One example cited was through Pharmacy First.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Taylor said: \u201cIt is concerning that mistakes are happening within the Pharmacy First programme given that this is some of the more simple prescribing done in primary care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added \u201cIt once again highlights the reason training is essential and that expanding roles is not as simple as some think.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the article and Dr Taylor\u2019s comments in full at Pulse Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are a non-profit campaigning and lobbying organisation led by frontline doctors, for frontline doctors. We are volunteers and our collective aim is to give frontline workers a voice to be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please support our work by contributing to\u00a0our crowd funder<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our GP co-lead says it\u2019s \u2018concerning\u2019 that antibiotics may have been inappropriately prescribed through Pharmacy First. Dr Steve Taylor said it underlined the \u2018significant challenges\u2019…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[24,22,23],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-in-the-media","tag-dauk-in-the-media","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-gp-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Pharmacy First<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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