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<blockquote data-quote="elaine77" data-source="post: 717081" data-attributes="member: 59930"><p>Actually that depends on what you class as a "certificate". The actual certificate is not a certificate at all but a card and also, if everything is electronic, as we are being told, then what is to say that the exemption "certificate" is not in an electronic format shared to the pharmacy via the surgery?? This is certainly what my DSN had me believe.</p><p></p><p>The words on the prescription are open to interpretation and with everything going "paperless" and "electronic" then no, I think you are wrong, and that it is absolutely not as simple as saying someone has been fraudulent. No mens rea and no clear guidance as to what an exemption certificate actually is says to me - no fraud.</p><p></p><p>Luckily, I have not been told I have to pay a fine, but if I did I would not be paying it; I would not be eating any "humble pie" and I would not be grovelling either. I take responsibility for my own mistakes but I do NOT take responsibility for other people's. Especially since I took the initiative to ask my DSN (directly) if I needed a form and a signature to get a certificate and was told no. Then there is also the fact that my pharmacy have never ever asked to see the certificate or asked if I have one. When I was first diagnosed and had to get an immediate prescription I also asked them about the free prescription for diabetics and they said all I had to do was "tick medical exemption and that's it". So they are clearly lacking in correct procedure too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elaine77, post: 717081, member: 59930"] Actually that depends on what you class as a "certificate". The actual certificate is not a certificate at all but a card and also, if everything is electronic, as we are being told, then what is to say that the exemption "certificate" is not in an electronic format shared to the pharmacy via the surgery?? This is certainly what my DSN had me believe. The words on the prescription are open to interpretation and with everything going "paperless" and "electronic" then no, I think you are wrong, and that it is absolutely not as simple as saying someone has been fraudulent. No mens rea and no clear guidance as to what an exemption certificate actually is says to me - no fraud. Luckily, I have not been told I have to pay a fine, but if I did I would not be paying it; I would not be eating any "humble pie" and I would not be grovelling either. I take responsibility for my own mistakes but I do NOT take responsibility for other people's. Especially since I took the initiative to ask my DSN (directly) if I needed a form and a signature to get a certificate and was told no. Then there is also the fact that my pharmacy have never ever asked to see the certificate or asked if I have one. When I was first diagnosed and had to get an immediate prescription I also asked them about the free prescription for diabetics and they said all I had to do was "tick medical exemption and that's it". So they are clearly lacking in correct procedure too. [/QUOTE]
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