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Hi All!
I qualified last year (in the UK) with the ability to sell/prescribe prescription only medication and have no idea how I go about it - I work in PP..

Especially as I'm hopefully moving to Oz and want to be able to do it there too!!

Any help/ advice very gratefully received!!

Thanks guys!

Lucy

 

Lucy,

If you have only got the Prescription Only Medicine from the uni included with your 3 year degree and not done the extended course, you can only sell or supply certain medicines - not prescribe.

This list is available from http://www.hpc-uk.org/aboutregistration/medicinesandprescribing/ and the MHRA site http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Howweregulat...dicinesActrestrictions/Chiropodists/index.htm

You will then need to source your products and provide your certification of the qualification to the supplier. There are many companies who would supply you with antibiotics etc as would your pharmacist, all you need to do is ask.

Hope this helps

Angie

 

Luck cool
At this stage your UK POM ability does not transfer to Australia at all. None of the UK courses have been accredited to be at a suitable level to prescribe, not even all Australian UG courses have yet been assessed as meeting the required standard.
Check the AHPRA.gov.au website for more info.

 

Just out of interest Lucy, which school did you attend and was the information that you are seeking not delivered as part of the course?

All the best

Bill

 

I also feel that this was never really made clear enough to us as we left to go into the real world!

 

That is probably because your tutors do not use or have full knowledge of their abilities to provide these POMs to patients. Many tutors at many universities around the UK work solely within the university and have done for many years. There are some good ones that have and do work in clinical practice, but there are those who do not. This is a great shame and I am hopeful that this will change in the future.

There are changes afoot in the list of POMs available - I wonder how soon the MHRA website will show this?

 

I went to QMU in Edinburgh, and although some of our tutors worked in the real world as well, quite a few of them had their contracts cancelled as I was leaving.. real shame.. but no, I was never made aware of how to go about it.

Do people think that since prescriptions are now free - in Scotland anyway - there is any point in buying some for my PP?

Thanks for all your advice!

Lucy

 

Thanks Lucy

That's a shame. As POMs (hopefully) become available after the DoH has gone through all the consultation/political processes, The Institute will be holding courses dealing with issues of concern to you. Hopefully, this will take place before you leave for down under but as Stephen has mentioned, the regulations there will be different from those in the U.K.

I definitely think that it is worth having relevant drugs as part of your pp treatment. GPs tend to get upset when practitioners in private hospitals send patients to take advantage of free/subsidised drugs under the NHS, and they will possibly regard private pods doing so in the same way.

All the best

Bill