The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7475 p462
27 October 2007

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SOP guide for Scotland

Guidance on how to write a standard operating procedure (SOP) for handling Controlled Drugs was published this week by the Scottish Government (PDF 100K).

The NHS guidance has been produced in response to the Controlled Drugs (Superv-ision of Management and Use) Regulations 2006 that require anyone who holds stocks of Controlled Drugs to have a SOP in place.

This week’s guidance explains that the SOP must cover people who have access to the drugs, where drugs are stored, security arrangements for storage and transportation, disposal and destruction, who should be alerted if complications arise, and record keeping.

It then lists points that should be considered when developing a SOP in order to meet these requirements.