Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
More than a third of pharmacists do not report colleagues' dispensing errors for fear of damaging relationships, a C+D poll has suggested.
Three fifths of readers were worried about the potential effect of reprting dispensing errors on their working relationships. And 68 per cent of these (35 per cent of the total respondents) didn't report errors as a result. Forty per cent of the 66 readers polled said they had no concerns over the effect of reporting dispensing on working relationships.
About a quarter of respondents said they continued to report errors despite their concerns.
The results prompted fresh calls to decriminalise dispensing errors, as pharmacy leaders said the law was discouraging pharmacists from reporting mistakes.
http://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk...urn-blind-eye-to-colleagues-dispensing-errors
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Three fifths of readers were worried about the potential effect of reprting dispensing errors on their working relationships. And 68 per cent of these (35 per cent of the total respondents) didn't report errors as a result. Forty per cent of the 66 readers polled said they had no concerns over the effect of reporting dispensing on working relationships.
About a quarter of respondents said they continued to report errors despite their concerns.
The results prompted fresh calls to decriminalise dispensing errors, as pharmacy leaders said the law was discouraging pharmacists from reporting mistakes.
http://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk...urn-blind-eye-to-colleagues-dispensing-errors
(free registration required)