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Legal and Ethical
Every pharmacist should be aware of the legal and ethical principles which govern the practice of the profession. Medicines Information, as a specialized function, is a relatively recent development and there is no UK case law, as far as it is known, relating to the provision of medicines information by hospital pharmacists.

However, in recent times, guidelines have been developed and these are reproduced as a series of briefings below:
  1. Ethical Dilemmas (general guidance) This document is in Adobe acrobat format
  2. Enquiries from the Police This document is in Adobe acrobat format
  3. Enquiries and legal proceedings This document is in Adobe acrobat format
  4. Working with the media This document is in Adobe acrobat format
  5. Third party enquiries This document is in Adobe acrobat format
  6. Physician-patient relationship This document is in Adobe acrobat format
  7. Copyright This document is in Adobe acrobat format
    7a.  Copyright - New NHS guidance May 2006 This document is in Adobe acrobat format

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain publishes a code of
ethics for pharmacists and a range of law and ethics fact sheets. These
can all be found at: http://www.rpsgb.org.uk/
 

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