The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7433 p3
6 January 2007

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Further CD changes come into effect in Wales

Further changes to arrangements for the management of Controlled Drugs came into effect in Wales on 1 January.

The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 2006 implement key changes to the arrangements for prescribing, dispensing, supplying, recording and monitoring of CDs in the community. From 1 January, privately prescribed Schedule 2 and 3 CDs should only be dispensed when presented on WP10PCD or WP10PCDSS prescription forms. These changes mirror those that came into effect in England and Scotland on 7 July 2006.

Further information is available from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s website (www.rpsgb.org.uk). Changes to CD record-keeping, originally planned to come into effect on 1 January, have been delayed until 1 January 2008 (PJ, 9 September 2006, p319).