Mixing medicines: Option D wins support
April 10, 2009 by admin
Responses to the MHRA consultation on mixing medicines in palliative care seem to be supporting Option D: that the law be changed to allow nurse and pharmacist independent prescribers to “specially prepare products for their individual patients and direct nurses and pharmacists who are not prescribers to mix drugs prior to administration” and to enable doctors to direct nurses and pharmacists to mix on a similar basis
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