Ethical Dilemmas

    YOU are the manager of a high street pharmacy – you are very busy as it is the Friday before a bank holiday. A patient presents with a prescription for a generic medicine […]

LAST week’s dilemma was particularly popular. I have copied the set up and a link in case you missed it. The scenario followed a group of pharmacy colleagues through a series events on a night out that […]

  IT’S Saturday night — you are on a night out in your local town celebrating a pharmacist colleague’s 10 year anniversary with the company you work for. You are in a group of 10 people. Some […]

IT’s Monday morning — you have just received your delivery from the wholesaler and a patient returns to collect an owing from Saturday. Unfortunately, the required item hasn’t come in, as the Saturday team didn’t send […]

YOU are a locum in a busy community pharmacy. You work there two days a week. On one of these days you are the only pharmacist on duty, and on the other day you normally work alongside […]

A DISTRICT nurse, who is a regular at the pharmacy, hands back some medicines from a patient that has died. Amongst the medicines is a packet of diamorphine ampoules. Later that day she drops off […]

YOU work in a busy community pharmacy that normally closes for one hour at lunchtime. However, your boss has decided that the pharmacy will now NOT close at lunchtime, so it will stay open right through […]

MAINTAINING patient confidentiality in healthcare is fundamental, as it helps to build the trust that exists between healthcare professionals and the people for whom they they provide services. The following dilemma presents a situation that […]

LAST week we featured a dilemma which asked how you would manage a situation where a methadone patent missed their usual collection of three doses on the Friday, but came in on the Saturday to collect […]