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Coroners lack understanding of pharmacists’ safety role: researchers

3rd June 2019

Coroners may not have a good understanding of the role pharmacists can play in preventing medication-related deaths,…

22nd May 2019

A coroner has expressed frustration at ongoing delays in the provision of real-time monitoring and suggested that a young…

19th June 2018

Pharmacists who feel under pressure to dispense potentially dangerous prescriptions are being urged to call the Pharmacists’…

18th June 2018

Pharmacists must be empowered with the confidence to refuse to dispense risky prescriptions, a coroner has ruled, after a…

24th May 2018

A coroner has cleared a pharmacist who had been accused of approving bulk sales of bisacodyl to a young mother who later…

2nd May 2018

Weight loss clinic doctors ignored clinical guidelines and inserted an intragastric balloon in a patient who should not have…

5th March 2018

A 14-year-old boy's death from ventricular arrhythmia may have been avoided had a cardiologist's letter not been lost in the…