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General Discussion Area / Re: Middle East
« on: 14 April 2024, 08:04:39 »
Certainly things are stepping up now.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 13 April 2024, 18:31:56 »
Cleaned the RRS checked fluids etc, off to collect the "tin tent" tomorrow for a few days away in Sussex.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Going to take a look with maybe a purchase.
« on: 13 April 2024, 15:19:00 »
Now there's some great ideas..😂
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General Discussion Area / Re: Chemist prescription deliveries
« on: 10 April 2024, 19:27:56 ».What I don't get is...The pharmacists' job appears to be counting. Not sure when it became a requirement to have a university degree to count up to 14 (or multiples thereof)
So it takes at least 2 people 15 minutes to move a pre-sealed box of pills about 3 feet from the shelf where they were stacked to the "customer". You get home, take that day's pills and wash them down with a nice single malt.
The pharmacist's job is checking, not counting. They're checking that the prescription is safe both singly and in combination with other medications, correctly prescribed(the right dose, chemical, amount etc), labelled and given to the correct person before putting their name and reputation on it. It's not unusual for a pharmacist phone the prescribing doctor and read them the riot act about dangerous prescriptions as they have far more understanding of how the drugs actually work, and don't just look up the symptoms and likely drug in a list.
What you're implying is the equivalent of Boeing relying on the new, barely trained, over-worked employee being able to fit a door panel without supervision and inspection. Or some fool designing his own deep water submersible.
I disagree. 99.999% of prescriptions are pills in pre-packed blisters. Opening the packet tells you nothing. If the pills in the blister is the wrong drug, or the wrong strength they won't know. They don't grind one up to measure it's strength and there is no visual difference between a 2mg, 5mg, 10mg, 20mg pill. Even if there were you can't see through the foil covering the pill in the blister.
At best they are counting the number of pills, and checking that the drug name and strength printed on the blister foil is the same as on the cardboard box. If there is no other pill on the prescription they can't tell if it contradicts other medication. I'm on Esomeprosol, and I soon learnt not to ask for Ibruprofen at the same time coz you get the riot act read to you. Just buy the Ibruprofen later.
In the old days when pills came in a large 'sweetie' jar and they had to count them out into a bottle using that triangular measuring thingy then yes perhaps Pharmacists had a role. Nowadays, nope - simply more NHS inefficiency. Most pills could be dispensed by a vending machine in one tenth the time and a fraction of the cost - especially repeat prescriptions.
I find that quite surprising being honest. Both myself and my wife have regular prescriptions, and the cardboard box containing the blister packs are never opened, and they are presented in the paper bag still intact with the clear seal on the box. This is the same whichever chemist we use.
Exactly the same here mine are always completely sealed & quite honestly that's the way I want them they should not have been opened by anyone other than myself.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Chemist prescription deliveries
« on: 10 April 2024, 13:45:57 »
We changed our GP practice last year because I was given advice by the newly qualified diabetic nurse which was total rubbish , changed over saw the diabetic nurse in the new practice who agreed with me that everything was indeed absolutely spot on , all prescriptions are requested on the NHS app and they text me when they are ready for collection, consider ourselves very lucky to have been recommended this practice, all staff including the dispensing chemists are always cheerful & chatty.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 10 April 2024, 12:59:41 »
Had a new air suspension compressor fitted to the Range Rover..
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General Car Chat / Re: Grandland X
« on: 10 April 2024, 09:54:14 »
Definitely going to be a pile of shit then.
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General Car Chat / Re: Grandland X
« on: 09 April 2024, 22:53:52 »
Just read an article about Vauxhall resurrecting the Frontera for 2024 petrol & EV versions more rugged appearance than the Grandland & slightly larger.