THE Victorian Pharmacy Authority has published details of an unusual case brought to its attention by a pharmacist, who was shown a medicine dispensed elsewhere with all the usual prescription label details - except the name, address and telephone number of the pharmacy that supplied it.
Apparently the pharmacy in question had recently changed ownership and installed new dispensing software, and because new labels had not yet been obtained from a commercial printer and staff unfamiliarity with the program, the content details were not printed by the computer on each label as a temporary measure.
"What was astonishing is that no one at the pharmacy noticed the omission, which persisted for some weeks affecting potentially thousands of dispensed medicines," the VPA said in a circular distributed yesterday to Victorian pharmacists.
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