“I am interested in how different pharmacies manage their scripts on file. The main pharmacy I work at has a few draws in the dispensary counter that they are stored in. Each patient or family is grouped together with a script backing with the patient name and address folded over them and held with a rubber band. Overall the system works fairly well unless someone uses a paper clip instead of the rubber band as one file can easily absorb another with the bottom of the bundle not held closed.”
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We do something similar but put each patient into their own plastic zip-lock bag. A patient address label is stuck on the outside of each zip-lock bag. Webster patients are colour coded and kept in a separate file.