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The Bulletin is prepared in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Fitness to Practise and Legal Affairs Directorate, to highlight problems and inquiries currently being handled

2001-today: Date order  |   Community pharmacy   Hospital pharmacy


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Poisons
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A

Accountability
   Professional more
   New powers for accountable officers and operating department practitioners following changes to Controlled Drugs legislation

 

Licence requirements for the prescribing of cocaine, diamorphine and dipipanone for addiction

 

Administration of adrenaline (epinephrine) in an emergency

 

Correction to the “Denatured alcoholsection of ‘Medicines, ethics and practice’

 

Amendment to the veterinary section of the ‘Medicines, ethics and practice’ guide more

See also MEP

Aspirin and aloxiprin labels and inserts more

 

Changes to aspirin labelling and leaflets: transitional period for 75mg products more

See also Labelling

Changes to aspirin legislation from 1 October 2003 more

 

B

Ensuring accuracy in the supply of the balance of a part-dispensed prescription more

 

Change of drug names from BANs to rINNs more

 

Move to introduce stronger penalties for unlawfully breaching patient confidentiality

 

Rest breaks (20 January 2007)

 

 

Instalment dispensing of buprenorphine more (updated February 2003)

 

C

Capping dispensing containers on receipt from wholesaler more

 

Labelling of medicines in care homes more

 

Copying of certificates more (updated January 2008)

 

Chemicals
   Sale of chemicals more
   Sale of chemicals and fireworks more

 

Chloramphenicol eye or ear drops
   Care needed when dispensing more
   Errors more

 

Child-resistant
   closures
   packaging

 

Products containing citronella oil or eucalyptus oil

 

Guidance on reporting sexual activity in children under 13 years more

 

Approved wording on instalment prescriptions to cover pharmacy closures

 

Restriction on OTC pack sizes of analgesics containing codeine or dihydrocodeine

 

Methamphetamine: link to cold remedies and reclassification

 

Requirement to report matters related to conduct and fitness to practise to the Society

 

• Patient confidentiality and police inspection of private prescription records
• Metropolitan Police investigations and release of patient confidential data
• Move to introduce stronger penalties for unlawfully breaching patient confidentiality

 

Interim guidance for pharmacist supervision and private consultation areas more

 

Restrictions on the sale of plano (zero powered), cosmetic contact lenses

 

Capping dispensing containers on receipt from wholesaler more

 

Contact details for organisations that may help with pharmacists' queries

 

Controlled Drugs (CDs)
   Changes to the arrangements for dealing with private Controlled Drug prescriptions
   Changes to the arrangements for dealing with Controlled Drug requisitions — Part I

   Clarification of the “Controlled Drugs in hospital” section of ‘Medicines, ethics and practice: a guide for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, issue 31

   Corrections to “Medicines, ethics and practice”, p26 and p30 concerning Controlled Drugs

   Date-expired Controlled Drugs stock more
   Destruction of those returned by patients more
   Destruction of out-of-date more
   Destruction of schedule 1, 2, 3 and 4 part I Controlled Drugs
   Extended formulary nurse prescribers and Controlled Drugs
   Handwriting exemptions for Controlled Drug prescribing more (updated 18 June 2005)
   Instalment dispensing of Controlled Drugs
   Ketamine becomes a Class C Controlled Drug
   Over-packaging of Controlled Drugs more
   Technical errors on Schedule 2 and 3 Controlled Drug prescriptions
   Validity of CD prescriptions
   New powers for accountable officers and operating department practitioners following changes to Controlled Drugs legislation

   Patients may not legally extemporaneously compound a product that contains a Controlled Drug
   Private Controlled Drugs prescriptions and other changes to the prescribing and dispensing of Controlled Drugs

   Supervision of CDs within the pharmacy more
   Supply of extemporaneously prepared products containing Schedule 5 Controlled Drugs more

Prescribing of Controlled Drugs by pharmacist and nurse independent prescribers more

See also Controlled drugs

Co-operation with investigations into a health care professional’s fitness to practise more

 

Copying of registration certificates

 

Covert administration of medicines more

 

D

Provision of home delivery services for prescription medicines more

 

Correction to theDenatured alcoholsection of ‘Medicines, ethics and practice’

 

Destruction of Controlled Drugs (CDs)
   returned by patients more
   out-of-date more
   Destruction of schedule 1, 2, 3 and 4 part I Controlled Drugs

See also Controlled drugs

Instalment dispensing of diazepam on FP10(MDA) more

 

Restriction on OTC pack sizes of analgesics containing codeine or dihydrocodeine

 

Disposal of pharmaceutical waste more

 

Supply of drug paraphernalia more

 

Amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations: guidance for pharmacists more

 

E

Emergency
   
First aid booklet more
   Telephoned requests for emergency prescription supplies more
   Supplies of prescription-only medicines more
   Administration of adrenaline (epinephrine) in an emergency

 

Guidance on OTC sales of emergency hormonal contraception more

 

Endorsement of prescriptions more (updated 5 February 2005)

See also Prescriptions

Restriction on sale or supply of pseudoephedrine and ephedrine containing medicines

Update on sale and supply of pseudoephedrine and ephedrine containing medicines

 

Errors
   Notification of errors
   Technical errors on Schedule 2 and 3 Controlled Drug prescriptions
   Medication error logs

 

Products containing citronella oil or eucalyptus oil

 

Date-expired Controlled Drugs stock more

 

Supply of extemporaneously prepared products containing Schedule 5 Controlled Drugs more

Extemporaneous preparation of methadone mixture more

Patients may not legally extemporaneously compound a product that contains a Controlled Drug

 

Extended formulary nurse prescribers and Controlled Drugs

 

F

Legal and Ethical Advisory Service fact sheet changes

 

Fitness for locum duties more

Co-operation with investigations into a health care professional’s fitness to practise more

Requirement to report matters related to conduct and fitness to practise to the Society

 

Preventing NHS fraud

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000: publication schemes more

 

G

Gifts and inducements

 

H

Handwriting exemptions for Controlled Drug prescribing more (updated 18 June 2005)

 

The Society’s new powers under the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 in relation to health cases

 

New Home Office telephone number for confirming practitioners' CD status more

See also Controlled drugs

Homoeopathy and malaria prophylaxis

 

Change to the types of Hospital outpatient FP10 prescription forms more

Clarification of the “Controlled Drugs in hospital” section of ‘Medicines, ethics and practice: a guide for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, issue 31

 

CD register entries for hydromorphone more

See also Controlled drugs

Hypromellose
   Dispensing prescriptions for hypromellose eye-drops more
   Hypromellose preparations more

 

I

Checking the identity of a medical practitioner

 

Pharmacists' indemnity insurance must cover all professional activities more

 

Ensuring adequate professional indemnity insurance cover for all professional activities more

 

Gifts and inducements

 

Advertising and promotion of infant formula baby milks more

 

Concerns over supplies of insulin more

 

Instalment dispensing
   Approved wording on instalment prescriptions to cover pharmacy closures
   Home Office confirmation (April 2005) updated June 2006
   Buprenorphine more (updated February 2003)
   Diazepam on FP10(MDA) more

See also Controlled drugs

Ensuring adequate professional indemnity insurance cover for professional activities

 

Co-operation with investigations into a health care professional’s fitness to practise more

 

J

 

 

K

Keep medicines out of the reach and sight of children

 

Ketamine becomes a Class C Controlled Drug

 

L

Corrections to the “Retail sale of pharmacy medicines” andLabelling of medicinal productssections of MEP

 

Inadequately labelled lactulose more

 

Licence requirements for the prescribing of cocaine, diamorphine and dipipanone for addiction

 

Fitness for locum duties more

 

M

Homoeopathy and malaria prophylaxis

 

Checking contents of manufacturers' packs more

 

Checking the identity of a medical practitioner

 

‘Medicines, ethics and practice’ guide
   Amendment to the veterinary section
   Correction to the “Denatured alcohol”
   Corrections to “Medicines, ethics and practice”, p26 and p30 concerning Controlled Drugs

See also MEP

Methadone
   Extemporaneous preparation of methadone mixture more
   Safe storage of methadone in the home more
   Substitution of colourless and/or sugar-free methadone mixture more
   Missed doses or collections of methadone
   Oral solution

 

Methamphetamine: link to cold remedies and reclassification

 

Talking to the media more

 

Methotrexate
   dispensing more

 

Ban on Sunday sales of methylated spirits lifted in England, Wales and NI more

 

Change to the status of midazolam on 1 January 2008

 

Misuse of Drugs Regulations
   Amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations: guidance for pharmacists (2005)
   Changes to more (2003)
   2001 more
   Further changes to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 (September 2006)

 

Use of mobile phones in the dispensary more

 

N

Notification of errors

 

Checking nurse prescribers' credentials more

 

O

Occupational health schemes more

 

New powers for accountable officers and operating department practitioners following changes to Controlled Drugs legislation

 

Supply of medicinal products to optometrists more

 

Contact details for organisations that may help with pharmacists' queries

 

Out of date
   Date-expired Controlled Drugs stock more

 

Dispensing outstanding balances of prescriptions more

 

Restriction on OTC pack sizes of analgesics containing codeine or dihydrocodeine

 

Validity period for owing slips

 

Dispensing overseas prescriptions more

 

P

Checking of paediatric dosages more

 

Sale of paracetamol

 

Dispensing products in patient packs more

 

Personal control more (2004)
Restrictions on personal control (2006)

 

PGD resource pack more

 

Checking pharmacists' credentials more (19 April 2003)
Checking pharmacists' credentials more (6 January 2001)

 

Pharmacy
   
Approved wording on instalment prescriptions to cover pharmacy closures

   Corrections to the
Retail sale of pharmacy medicinesand “Labelling of medicinal products' sections of MEP

   Identity of pharmacy visitors more

 

Metropolitan Police investigations and release of patient confidential data

 

The Society's new powers under the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 in relation to health cases

 

Licence requirements for the prescribing of cocaine, diamorphine and dipipanone for addiction

 

Prescriptions
    Provision of home delivery services for prescription medicines more
    Validity of CD prescriptions

 

Prescription endorsements
    accuracy of more
    automatic more
    (updated 5 February 2005)

 

Private prescriptions
   Changes to the arrangements for dealing with private Controlled Drug prescriptions (2007)
   Private Controlled Drugs prescriptions and other changes to the prescribing and dispensing of Controlled Drugs (2006)

   Retention of more

 

Professional accountability more

 

Ensuring adequate professional indemnity insurance cover for professional activities

 

Professional judgement needed in sales of Valoid (cyclizine) more

 

Professional responsibility when dispensing more

 

Restriction on sale or supply of pseudoephedrine and ephedrine containing medicines

Update on sale and supply of pseudoephedrine and ephedrine containing medicines

Legal restriction on sale or supply of pseudoephedrine and ephedrine containing medicines

 

Q

 

 

R

Use of reference sources more

 

Registered addresses of pharmacists, pharmacy companies and partnerships more

 

Do not accept FP10s for replenishing surgery stock more

 

Requirement to report matters related to conduct and fitness to practise to the Society

 

Changes to the arrangements for dealing with Controlled Drug requisitionsPart I

 

Responsibility
   Professional responsibility when dispensing more
   Responsibility and delegation more

 

Making adequate provision for pharmacists to have appropriate rest breaks more (2006)
Rest breaks (20 January 2007)

 

Restrictions
   
on personal control
   on OTC pack sizes of analgesics containing codeine or dihydrocodeine
   on sale or supply of pseudoephedrine and ephedrine containing medicines

 

Retention
   of private prescriptions more

 

Changes to the return and storage of waste medicines in Scotland

 

S

Safe storage of medicines in patients' homes

 

Sale of substances included in Schedule 1 to the Poisons Rules more

 

Pharmacy employers' security procedures more

 

Restrictions on the self selection of pharmacy medicines to remain

 

Guidance on reporting sexual activity in children under 13 years more

 

Keep medicines out of the reach and sight of children

 

Spare dispensing labels for homes or carers more

 

Specials
   Placing orders with specials manufacturers more
   Record-keeping for supply of "specials" more
   Telephoned orders for "specials" more

 

Pharmacy staffing levels more

 

Stolen registration certificate more

 

Storage of medicines by patients more

 

Strychnine
   Revised forms authorising the purchase and use of more
   Sale of strychnine for the killing of moles more (June 2002)
   Strychnine no longer approved for mole control (October 2006)

See also Poisons

Substitution of colourless and/or sugar-free methadone mixture more

 

Supervision of CDs within the pharmacy more

See also Controlled drugs

Interim guidance for pharmacist supervision and private consultation areas more

 

T

Technical errors on Schedule 2 and 3 Controlled Drug prescriptions

 

Telephoned
   Orders for "specials" more
   Requests for emergency prescription supplies more

 

Minimising the risk of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) more

 

U

Unlicensed products for dispensing more

 

V

Supply of vaginal imidazole preparations more

 

Professional judgement needed in sales of Valoid (cyclizine) more

 

The Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2006
   Amendment (21 October 2006)

 

Amendment to the veterinary section of the ‘Medicines, ethics and practice’ guide

See also MEP

W

Changes to the return and storage of waste medicines in Scotland

Pharmacists' working hours more

 

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