Updated fact sheet on CDs is now available
An updated version of a fact sheet on Controlled Drugs in community pharmacy is now available from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
The fact sheet is intended as a resource that pharmacists and registered
pharmacy technicians can use in reviewing their practices and policies.
Its aim is not to interpret the law, the Society’s Code of Ethics
or the policies of the Society’s Council policies but to offer
common-sense guidance on issues of topical interest.
The inclusion of new information — such as the recently introduced
new arrangements for the monitoring of the management, use and other
aspects of CDs in England and Scotland — has increased the length
of the document to 48 pages. Because of its greater length, the guidance
now includes a detailed contents list to assist readers in finding the
information they need.
The revised fact sheet No 1, “Controlled Drugs and community pharmacy”,
can be downloaded from the legal
and ethical advisory service page of the Society’s website.
A hard-copy version can be obtained by sending a C4-size envelope, bearing
postage stamps to the value of £1.02,
to Legal and Ethical Advisory Service, Royal Pharmaceutical Society,
1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN.
Fact sheet No 2, “Controlled Drugs and hospital pharmacy”,
which was withdrawn for revision at the same time as fact Sheet No 1,
is also being updated and will be made available again in due course.
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