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Speaker 1: Ever do for c Ellen.

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Speaker 2: Concerns are being raised about the safety of prescriptions after

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Speaker 2: two more reports of incorrect dosage. Now a Dunedin woman

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Speaker 2: has suffered an overdose of fentanyl after being given six

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Speaker 2: times her prescribed dosage, and a man has passed away

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Speaker 2: after a pharmacist saw anomalies in his blood from the

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Speaker 2: blood thinning medication he was on, but didn't send him

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Speaker 2: back to his GP like he should have. Lanny Wong

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Speaker 2: is the director of mung A Phi Pharmacy and with us.

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Speaker 1: Hey Lanny, Hey ha, her i'skulty again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good to have you back with us. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Are these isolated incidents or is something bigger going on here?

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Speaker 1: Look, you know it's I think errors do happen, like

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Speaker 1: it definitely does happen. I'm not saying, you know, ifarms

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Speaker 1: are such perfect. This is one of those things that

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Speaker 1: definitely happened, and I think, you know, the media is

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Speaker 1: definitely highlighting it. I think there's a lot of interest

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Speaker 1: in why this is happening, which is which is probably

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Speaker 1: a good thing, but also very sad to finally talk

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Speaker 1: about this so openly, you know, you know, on the

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Speaker 1: backs of such a sad case.

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Speaker 2: Problem here is I mean, in at least two of

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Speaker 2: the incidents, the problem could well be that that perhaps

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Speaker 2: you know, somebody had failed to double check, or they

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Speaker 2: had double checked and just not had their brain turned on.

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Speaker 2: But in the one with the failing to send the

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Speaker 2: doctor back to the sort of failing to send the

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Speaker 2: patient back to the GP, what.

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Speaker 1: Happened there, Yes, it's very hard for me to comment

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Speaker 1: on that case without knowing all the full details. But

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Speaker 1: you know, like I would always go back to saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, pharmacists are definitely under pressure, Like we're you know,

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Speaker 1: our work. You know, the way we're funded is that

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Speaker 1: we are being funded to do more prescription, like you know,

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Speaker 1: the you know, as we want our business to be

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Speaker 1: vibe or we need to keep up with the amount

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Speaker 1: of prescription that we do, so you know, we're funded

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Speaker 1: for volume rather than value. So you know, that's always

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Speaker 1: at play every day in the community pharmacy. How we

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Speaker 1: how we manage our workloads that we need to go

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Speaker 1: through all the script If we don't hit the target,

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Speaker 1: then we're making a lost kind of thing, if that

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Speaker 1: makes sense. So there's always that pressure and it's definitely

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Speaker 1: unsustainable because our uplift hasn't actually kept up with inflation,

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Speaker 1: so for the last two decades, we're doing the same

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Speaker 1: type of work for less. So in order to sort

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Speaker 1: of keep up, you know, keep our business vibal, we

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Speaker 1: need to dispense more prescriptions. So that that is that

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Speaker 1: is not sustainable, put it that way, and we need

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Speaker 1: we need to rethink that.

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Speaker 2: Lanny. It's good to talk to you. Thank you, Lanny Wong,

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Speaker 2: director of mang a Phi Pharmacy.

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