But with customs staff being moved to help with passport checks, the union's deputy general secretary, Lucy Moreton, said Heathrow staff "are having to reduce all other activity, and that includes the secondary activity of checking for drugs, firearms, and such like".
This is a complex task which is prone to error and involves combining various disposables, such as IV lines and valves, and checking for drug incompatibilities.
The online version gives access to medication monographs and allows checking for drug interactions among a list of drugs selected by the practitioner.
Prescribing CDSS (RxCDSS) specifically deal with medications and can support basic (e.g. checking for drug-drug interactions) to complex (e.g. integrating patient-specific diagnoses, risk factors, and prior treatments to make a drug recommendation) functions [ 10].
In addition to the replacement of handwritten prescriptions by easily readable digital fonts, and the factual elimination of documentation errors, these software programs feature various security functions, such as checking for drug interactions, dosage levels, laboratory findings, and contraindications [ 2, 13, 21- 23].
Without this information, the online pharmacy has no way of checking for drug interactions or inappropriate prescribing.
The Customs Service has tried to change how passengers are checked for drugs.
This could make employers who check for drugs vulnerable to legal action, although they might be able to justify it on health and safety grounds.
The horses will be kept in an isolated barn with visitors limited, feed and hay bales checked for drugs, and veterinarians and trainers under daily watch to ensure there is no manipulation of food or medication.
Perhaps the committee can explain how bouncers are meant to check for drugs already in a person's bloodstream?
The final police report in fact only included one witness, and we later discovered that the driver was never even checked for drugs or alcohol.
