Specials manufacturing laboratories

For this weeks blog, you need to consider the impact that 'specials manufacturing' has had on community pharmacy and the need for extemporaneous dispensing of medicines. You may want to think about:

• why specials manufacturing was introduced
• how this affected the amount of extemporaneous dispensing in community pharmacy
• the financial impact on NHS pharmacy services because of the introduction of specials manufacturing
• the impact on patient care (risk of errors reduced?). 

As you carry out your research you may also find other factors for consideration so please feel free to add any comments that you think may be important and/or interesting