New FMD resources for dispensing GPs, to support the Directive coming in tomorrow, have finally been published (in the GP section – scroll down).
This information covers the following:
- How to use this toolkit
- Verification and decommissioning
- When to decommission
- Aggregated barcodes
- What’s in and out of scope?
- FMD solution options.
This last section includes references to suppliers, but also makes clear that GP IT Futures framework – which will replace GPSoC and which pays for essential GP IT – will include the capability to support FMD.
Advice from the DDA remains that ‘to show willing’ with compliance: