{"id":694,"date":"2012-03-20T10:56:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T10:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/?p=694"},"modified":"2012-03-20T10:56:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T10:56:27","slug":"trading-standards-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Trading Standards Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many pharmacies offer repeat prescription collection schemes and patients can nominate a pharmacy to collect prescriptions on their behalf as part of this service. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has come to the attention of Trading Standards via our Adult Safeguarding Team that an individual claiming to be a pharmacy representative has been attempting to order and collect prescriptions from GP practices without patient consent.<\/p>\n<p>Some prescriptions have been dispensed in pharmacies other than the patient\u2019s nominated or usual pharmacy and it appears that a number of these prescriptions have not been delivered to the patient at all.<\/p>\n<p>If you are registered to a repeat prescription collection service and have not received your medication, work in a GP Surgery or Pharmacy that has been subject to this fraudulent act then please report to <strong>Marilyn Knass or Gail Curphey <\/strong><em>Pharmacy Leads for NHS Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral<\/em><strong> on 01606 544421 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Residents<em> are reminded to remain vigilant at all times. Please pass this information to family members, friends, neighbours and anyone you think maybe<\/em> vulnerable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For general consumer advice ring Consumer Direct on 08454 04 05 06 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.direct.gov.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.direct.gov.uk\/<\/a><br \/>\nCheshire Constabulary Western Watch Office supports Home Watch Schemes across Chester, Ellesmere Port, Neston and Vale Royal, and is based in the Western Partnership Office, Northwich Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>TO CONTACT THE POLICE CALL \u00a0 <strong>101\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many pharmacies offer repeat prescription collection schemes and patients can nominate a pharmacy to collect prescriptions on their behalf as part of this service. It has come to the attention of Trading Standards via our Adult Safeguarding Team that an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/?p=694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homewatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wp-ra.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}