Unhealthy inhaler

It's all back to normal this week (except for all the boxes of chocolate biscuits that are still left to eat).

It's been a little bit quieter this week and so we have started to catch up on all those jobs that just don'’t get done over Xmas.

One of them was to sort out all the patient-returned medicines since we had started to overflow with the amount that had been returned over the holiday period.

Before accepting any waste, the staff always check that there are no sharps in the bags, but what we didn'’t expect to find in one bag when we sorted through it was two packets of knitting needles and a box of teabags!

It'’s also that time of year for New Years resolutions and it did take me back a little when, after talking to a 14 year old boy and his concerned Dad about the overuse of the boy's blue inhaler and the fact that he now probably also needed a brown inhaler, I overhead their conversation when leaving the pharmacy which went along the lines of 'You really should also give up smoking son' - 'I know Dad, but it'’s really hard...'’