You’re a locum pharmacist in a community pharmacy. A 40-year-old woman with diabetes (who states that she’s a regular customer in this pharmacy) comes in and requests an emergency supply of her insulin.
She has enough at the minute but says that she’s going “away for a few days” and doesn’t have time to go to the GP.
When you check the patient’s PMR, you notice that she’s been dispensed insulin without producing a prescription for the previous nine months.
When you question her on this, she replies, ‘sure what's the point. It never changes anyway!’ She also asks for throat lozenges as she's been feeling thirsty the last couple of weeks.
What do you do?