Pharmacy Law

Introduction and a brief outline of the case/situation:
You are the ‘Responsible Pharmacist’ and manager of a community pharmacy. You employ a second pharmacist, Dave, to provide additional services such as the supply of emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) via patient group direction (PGD). Dave is accredited to supply Ella One and Levonelle One Step.
Dave is serving a patient requesting EHC in the consultation room and has come into the dispensary to select a product and support materials to supply. Dave tells you that the patient has met the criteria for supply with Ella One 30mg tablet via PGD but notes you are out of stock.
Dave tells you that as Ella One is out of stock, he has decided to supply 6 x Esmya 5mg tablets to the patient from the dispensary as an equivalent. He then begins preparing the tablets for supply to the patient.
At this point, you decide to intervene and ask Dave for further details about the supply.
Legal Issues:
There are several legal issues that are arising from the case study. The first legal issue according to the patient group direction rules is that any pharmacy must have a security system to monitor the stock control, British Pharmacopoeia commission, (2000). This means that all pharmacies registered under the (PDG) must have a system that controls their medicine stock by providing good storage conditions and monitoring their expiration date. From the case study, it seems the pharmacy has run out of the Ella One tablet, which …