Medicines, Ethics and Practice Edition 36

The latest edition of the MEP covers the following areas:

• Core concepts and skills
• Professionalism and professional judgment
• Clinical check
• Taking medication histories
• Counselling patients
• Just culture
• Professional empowerment
• Continuing professional development
• Underpinning knowledge – legislation and professional issues
• Classification of medicines (available online)
• Professional and legal issues: Pharmacy medicines
• Professional and legal issues: Prescription-only medicines
• Wholesale dealing
• Additional legal and professional issues
• Veterinary medicines
• Controlled drugs
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society resources (available online)
• Excluded topics and signposting
• Partnerships with specialist groups
• Appendices (GPhC standards)

The following NEW sections have been added to this year’s edition:

• Counselling patients
• Just culture
• Professional empowerment
• Supply isotretinoin and pregnancy prevention
• Summary of prescriber types and prescribing restrictions
• Homeopathic and herbal preparations
• Charitable donation of medicines
• Electronic cigarettes
• Social media
• Collection of medicine by children

Significant revisions have also been made to the following sections based on member feedback, changes to legislation, policy development etc:

• Clinical check
• Faxed prescriptions
• Labelling of medicines
• Wholesale dealing