The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7466 p197
25 August 2007

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CD destruction rules change

Accountable officers, responsible for monitoring and managing the use of Controlled Drugs within an NHS organisation, can now authorise people to witness the destruction of CDs, following amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 that came into force last week (PJ, 18 August, p189).

Steve Lutener, head of regulation at the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, explained that previously destruction needed to be witnessed either by police chemist inspection officers or the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s inspectors, but the Regulations now require the accountable officer to authorise people to oversee the destruction of stock CDs.