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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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Accuracy Checking
Assembly & Labelling
Altering medication for administration
Anticoagulants: dispensing
Clozaril (dispensing)
Cold chain: Fridge temperature checks
Cold chain: Receiving and storing fridge items
Competency Assurance
Controlled Drugs: Destruction
Controlled drugs: discrepancies
Controlled drugs: inspections
Controlled drugs: monitoring
Controlled Drugs: Orders, Storage & Dispensing
Controlled Drugs: Handling Returns
Digoxin (dispensing)
Dispensary audit
Dispensary Review of Use of Medicines (DRUM)
Disposal (general medications)
DSQS (participation, incl. example audit)
Equipment cleanliness & hygiene
Expiry date checking
Home delivery
Insulin (dispensing)
Lithium (dispensing)
Medication Administration Records (creation)
MDS: Initiation and supply
Month end submissions (England)
Month end submissions (Scotland)
Month end submissions (Wales)
Methotrexate tablets (dispensing)
Methotrexate PFS (dispensing)
Near miss reporting
Ordering (general medications)
Pharmaceutical Assessment
Personally Administered Items (PAs)
Prescription (blank form security)
Private Prescriptions (pricing)
Prescription retrieval
Prescriptions (taking in)
Problem Solving
Recalls
Risk management
Room temperature monitoring
Sign Off Sheet
Specials: ordering
Split packs
Stock (receiving)
SOP review
Transferring dispensed items to patients
