BBCNEWS Boots January 12, 2018
Staff were associated with higher error rates. Deaths following dispensing errors are extremely rare. But six months after douglas, Arlene Devereaux died following a massive morphine overdose. It was her 71st birthday. She had osteoporosis. Even her hands were painful, you know, so thats why she was on zomorph. This time, a Boots Pharmacy at chesterfield, in derbyshire, dispensed six times the strength of morphine tablets prescribed by arlenes gp. The coroner concluded that arlenes death was accidental and there were clear opportunities for the error to be corrected. The pharmacist in charge s...