The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7486 p77
26 January 2008

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Welsh CD guidance sets out new record-keeping demands

Controlled Drugs guidance for Wales has been updated by the Welsh Assembly Government.

The guidance (PDF, 50K)sets out and advises on regulatory changes to record-keeping requirements for CDs and the format of CD registers.

The regulations specify the information to be recorded in the register, rather than its specific format, and set out the information that should be recorded about people collecting CDs. These changes come into force on 1 February. The guidance is available from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s website.

Mechanisms for the introduction of electronic CD registers in Wales are currently being explored. Further guidance will be issued once electronic prescribing of CDs and electronic registers are widespread.