BRITAIN'S Care Quality Commission (CQC) has issued formal reprimands to several online health sites, highlighting several cases compromising patient safety.
The CQC cited one example in which a doctor associated with one service took as little as 17 seconds to review patient questionnaires, while in another case a site called Frosts Pharmacy Ltd was found to be dispensing large quantities of asthma inhalers without checking if a patient's diagnosis was confirmed, the BBC reports.
In a further example, White Pharmacy Ltd was prescribing high volumes of opioid-based painkillers without a system to confirm patients' medical histories.
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