Pharmacy Ethics and Law
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- Pharmacy Ethics/Law
- Ethics: Study of moral choices.
- Pharmacy Ethics: Medical ethics that aims to maintain patient safety and public confidence.
- The 4 Bioethical Principles
- Autonomy: Self-determination, freedom to act independently.
- Beneficence: Promote well-being of others, encompasses medical paternalism.
- Justice: Treat cases in similar ways, same respect for all patients and district the same healthcare resources.
- Non-Maleficence: Avoid harm, justification for acts and omissions
- Ethical Decision-Making framework:
- 1. Recognise moral issue
- 2. Gather all relevant info.
- 3. Identify the type of ethical problem
- 4. Analyse the problem
- 5. Explore the solutions make decision
- 6. Asses and reflect
- Main types of Law in the UK
- Statue Law: Act of parliament
- Public Law: Involves the state or government; defines the boundaries of acceptable conduct
- Criminal Law: A crime is an act against criminal law with criminal intent. Prosecution is made by the Crown Prosecution service.
- Administrative Law: Controls how public bodies and individuals (NHS/community contractors should run)
- Professional Law: Law allowing the disciplining of professionals
- Common Law and civil Law: Duties and and obligations between citizens. This relates to specific circumstances when legislation does not exist.
- Tort: A wrongful act committed against another person.
- Negligence: Supplying the wrong drug to a patient
- Duty :Something that is owed to the patient
- Breach:Not conforming to the professional standards of care.
- Causation: Patient suffers harm as a result of the defendants actions
- Breach:Not conforming to the professional standards of care.
- Duty :Something that is owed to the patient
- Negligence: Supplying the wrong drug to a patient
- Medicines Act 1968: Governs the control of medicines for human use.
- Human Medicines Regulation2012: Regime for the authorisation of medicinal products for human use.
- For there, sale/supply, labelling and advertising.
- Covers:Definition of a medicinal product, safety, quality,GSL, P, POM clinical trials and more,
- MHRA: Licensing, manufacturing, wholesale dealing, import/export and clinal trials.
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- GPhC: Registration, operation, and inspection-pharmacy premises.
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- Ethics: Study of moral choices.
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