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Standard operating procedures for practice dispensaries

The DDA offers the following library of Standard Operating Procedures for practice dispensaries. Please click on the relevant link to access the SOP:

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Falsified Medicines Directive process
Receiving stock
Prescription retrieval (FMD)
Dispensary audit
Accuracy checking
Altering medication for administration
Anticoagulants: dispensing
Assembling and labelling prescriptions (incl. owings) (FMD)
Blank prescription form security
Cold chain: Fridge temperature checks
Cold chain: Receiving and storing fridge items
Controlled drugs: destruction
Controlled drugs: discrepancies
Controlled drugs: handling returns (FMD)
Controlled drugs: inspections
Controlled drugs: monitoring
Controlled drugs: ordering, storage and dispensing (FMD)
Digoxin (dispensing)
Dispensary Review of Use of Medicines (DRUM)
Disposal (general medications) (FMD)
DSQS (participation, incl. example audit)
Expiry date checking
Home delivery (FMD)
Insulin (dispensing) (FMD)
Interventions and problem solving
Lithium (dispensing)
Medication Administration Records (creation)
MDS: Initiation and supply (FMD)
Month end submissions (England)
Month end submissions (Scotland)
Month end submissions (Wales)
Methotrexate tablets (dispensing)
Methotrexate PFS (dispensing)
Near miss reporting
Pharmaceutical assessment
Recalls (updated April 2017)
Risk management
Room temperature monitoring
Specials: ordering
Split packs (FMD)
SOP review
Stock (ordering)
Stock (receiving)
Taking in Prescriptions
Transferring dispensed items to patients (FMD)

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