What happens if medications are changed mid-cycle?

What happens if medications are changed mid-cycle?

  2. If pouched medication needs to be stopped mid-cycle, your staff and our pharmacists work together to find the best solution, on a case-by-case basis.  
  3. We store images of every pouch dispensed and therefore can assist in the removal of discontinued medication if required. 
  4. There are 2 outcomes:
  5. The stopped medication is removed from the remaining pouches by your staff, and we help your staff do this. 
  6. We make a joint decision to ‘waste’ the remaining pouches, and we ask the GP to re-issue a short prescription cycle, which we arrange to have dispensed in original boxes, or a new reel of pouches if 3 weeks are left in the cycle .
  7. If a new prescription medicine is required midcycle, we will dispense it in its original pack (non-pouched).
  8. The new medicine will then be added in the next cycle of pouches

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