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You are working in a community pharmacy on a Sunday. A doctor calls and makes an emergency request for a salbutamol inhaler. The request is not part of any NHS service.
When must the doctor present the original prescription to the pharmacy?
Within 72 hours
You have just finished using a stock bottle of methadone in the pharmacy. You are unable to pour anything out of the bottle, but you can see that there are still traces inside.
In what way should you deal with the disposal of the remaining liquid inside the bottle?
Rinse the bottle with water and pour into a denaturing kit
Miss WQ is a regular patient of your pharmacy and comes to collect her weekly instalment of methadone. She returns, an hour later, asking for another to be dispensed as she dropped the bottle containing methadone. She shows you pieces of the broken bottle.
Advise Miss WQ that she needs to obtain another prescription from her prescriber
Your dispenser is measuring out the daily methadone liquid prescriptions. As she returns the bottle to the cupboard she drops it and it smashes on the floor.
What is the most appropriate way to clear up the spillage?
Clear up with tissue and store in a bag in the CD cupboard
Which of the following is legally required on the dispensing label?
Address of prescriber
Date of dispensing
Expiry date of medicine
“Keep out of the sight and reach of children”
Recommended BNF warning labels for the relevant medicine
The date of dispensing is a legal requirement. All other options are good practice.
Amphetamines belong to which schedule of controlled drugs?
Schedule 2
What drugs require invoices to be legally kept for a minimum of 2 years?
Schedule 3 and 5
what schedule drugs can be given as an emergency supply?
schedule 4 and 5
How long are CD prescriptions valid for?
2,3,4= 28 days
5= 6 months
what CD can be put on repeatable prescriptions?
schedule 4 and 5
which CD don’t need a license to import/export?
schedule 5 and schedule 4 part II if for self administration
Travelling with CDs
- less than 3 months np license required any longer check with travel agents for additional requirements
what is a CD requisition?
A standardised form to allow the supply of schedule 2 and 3 CDs to other HCPs without a Rx
Legal requirements for CD requisitions
Profession
Purpose of Requisition
Address of recipient
Name
Total quantity of drug
Signature
which medicines can a midwife request on requisition?
- morphine
- diamorphine
- pethidine
Which of the following does NOT have to be recorded when making an entry into the controlled drugs register in respect to the supply of a controlled drug?
Address of prescriber
Amount supplied
Date of supply
Details of the prescriber’s authority to possess
Name of patient
Address of prescriber
