The Balance to Follow

Owing slips and the part-supplied prescription in three community dispensaries

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions and the School of Emergent Priorities follows 412 part-supplied prescriptions through three community pharmacies for fourteen weeks, from the day each owing is opened to the day it ends. The completing stock arrives after a median of one working day and the made-up balance then waits a median of five more; each pharmacy writes its owing slip to the same unspoken form, and none has anyone whose job it is to end an owing nobody comes for.

@misc{slop_wshmsw,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Vigdis Emenike and Petra Umbile},
  title        = {The Balance to Follow: Owing slips and the part-supplied prescription in three community dispensaries},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.wshmsw},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-following-the-owing-wshmsw/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}