Any pharmacists on here? Advice needed please

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Odd question but would really appreciate help.

Some GPs send prescriptions to a chosen pharmacy electronically. The details then appear on the patients computer generated record and I assume the script is made.

My question is this, is it possible for a pharmacist to fake that record ie could the pharmacist or employee manipulate the computer record to show that an electronic prescription was received from a GP when in fact it wasn't?

I hope that makes sense.

Ta

Not a pharmacist but I wouldn't have thought it was possible. They print off what is sent through so it would have the doctors signature on.

Thank you. I understand what you mean.

Pharmacy technician here, and the answer is no. It's just like a normal
Script being sent it's signed by the gp. You can change or alter the script in any way.

Hi I'm a pharmacist. And I don't think that would be at all possible. The scripts come over electronically and we can't amend them in any way.

Am pretty sure it is NOT possible in way OP imagines. Pharmacists can't dispense GP-prescribed medicines; the system won't let them.

There are probably occasional audits of their medication stock to make sure the amounts in stock match the amounts prescribed & that were collected by patients.

ps: I did once alter a paper script myself... I was prescribed 100 painkillers when I only needed 10 pills. What waste that would have been. I can't remember how, but I probably crossed out the 100 & wrote in 10.

Thank you all. I really appreciate it. The pharmacist has a record of a script being sent electronically but there is nothing on the GPs record ie they've never sent it.

*the pharmacists record shows that a script was received

Hmm that's strange. Maybe it was a different GP who signed it off?

Was it from one of those online GP services?

No. It was a regular GP i.e. not online. They have had someone from IT check their records and there is no trace of a script being sent apparently. It's weird.