Coroner raises concerns over pharmacists being unable to amend prescriptions following death of toddler

Rules that prevent pharmacists from issuing any alternate strengths of medicines led to a delay in a two-year-old child receiving antibiotics.
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The Department of Health and Social Care must respond to the ‘Prevention of future deaths’ report by 10 March 2025

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A coroner has expressed concern that pharmacists are not permitted to provide differing strengths of the same medicines without an amended prescription, following the death of two-year-old Ava Grace Hodgkinson.

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