Turin. Nurse convicted of abusive practice of the medical profession for having administered some drugs to patients without the mandatory medical prescription
Speaking to pharmacists gathered in Killarney for their annual meeting, the Irish Health Minister Leo Varadkar he hoped that they could be enabled "to prescribe medicines as is already the case in some countries".
"Nobody knows medicines better than the pharmacist," Varadkar later explained to the Irish Times. The Minister builds on the success reported with the authorization to prescribe granted to Irish nurses and also recalls the example of flu vaccination by pharmacists, an initiative which made it possible to protect as many as 41,000 patients during the 2013/2014 season , double the number from the previous year. "The 85% of those patients had never been vaccinated before and consisted of people at risk" the Minister underlined.
For now, Leo Varadkar has refrained from setting dates with pharmacists; he contented himself with spreading the idea of prescription by hospital pharmacists who «in a 
first stage, would make it possible to avoid conflicts of interest between the prescription and sale of medicinal products". However, he specified that such an authorization would need "new legislation and an amendment to the law".
For her part, Kathy Maher, president of the Irish Pharmaceutical Union (Ipu), as always reported by the Irish Times, pointed out that "some medicinal products available from the pharmacist in Great Britain, in Ireland require a doctor's prescription". Leo Varadkar has also promised the Irish congressmen to review the regulation on the dispensing of the morning-after pill which is currently free only on prescription, a situation that is not seen by the IPU.
EL – Thursday, 07 May 2015 – Pharmacist33
Abusive exercise of the medical profession by the nurse
The Court of Appeal of Turin confirmed the judgment with which the Court of the same city had sentenced to justice a nurse from an associated nursing practice operating in a rest home accused of having administered some drugs to patients without the obligatory medical prescription, thus exercising the medical profession. In rejecting the appeal, the Court of Cassation highlighted that the crime of abusive exercise of a profession has in fact the nature of an instantaneous crime so that, for its consummation, the completion of even a single act typical or proper to the profession is sufficient.
[Adv. Ennio Grassini- www.dirittosanitario.net]
