Dispensing error decriminalisation resources

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News from The Pharmaceutical Journal

Health Committee calls for pharmacists’ dispensing errors to be decriminalised (3 July)

Decriminalising dispensing errors (David Pruce) (26 June)

Parliamentarians from three main parties come out in support of decriminalisation of dispensing errors (25 June)

Interim solution to dispensing error anomaly sought (17 June)

BBC to raise profile of dispensing errors (online 12 June)

PDA questions the Society’s credibility (9 June)

iPM podcast (6 June) (16mins, mp3 8mb)

Decriminalisation of dispensing errors Early Day Motion laid before Parliament (6 June)

Responses to Medicines Act consultation support decriminalisation (online 3 June)

BBC may cover decriminalisation of dispensing errors (online 2 June)

Society will take no further disciplinary action against Elizabeth Lee (online 18 May)

PDA launches fund to aid campaign for decriminalisation of dispensing errors (online 11 May)

Society seeks views on recording dispensing errors in error log (9 May) 

PDA campaigns to decriminalise dispensing errors (2 May)

Society calls on ministers to discuss decriminalising dispensing errors (18 April)

Former locum handed suspended jail term for dispensing error (11 April)

Dispensing errors should be decriminalised (11 April)

Letters from The Pharmaceutical Journal

Dispensing errors

PJ Online poll results

Is criminal prosecution the right response to a dispensing error?

Older news from The Pharmaceutical Journal

Society seeks to decriminalise single dispensing and labelling errors (16 December 2006)

Council seeks decriminalisation of dispensing errors (16 December 2006)