User is aware of all that, you're preaching to the converted. The one that needs to understand this stuff is spouting off elsewhere in the thread.
It's not unknown for patients to walk around weekend pharmacies whilst the surgeries are closed and try and pick up 2 or 3 salbutamol inhalers before Monday morning. The law and guidance on emergency supplies are incredibly clear. Often unfortunately up until now the pharmacist has no choice. It is not surprising that when I went to summary care record training that salbutamol inhaler emergency supply was one of the examples. In theory if you give a pharmacist or technician permission to view your SCR this is an extra tool available to the pharmacy to give more information that may help in emergency supply situations.
It's just a different perspective that pharmacies have to patients. They see doctor's withdrawing medicine, changing doses, refusing to prescribe repeat requests etc.
