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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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Cold chain: Receiving and storing fridge items
Cold chain: Fridge temperature checks
Altering medication for administration
Accuracy checking
Anticoagulants: dispensing
Assembling and labelling prescriptions (incl. owings)
Controlled drugs: destruction
Controlled drugs: discrepancies
Controlled drugs: handling returns
Controlled drugs: ordering, storage and dispensing (from November 30, 2015)
Controlled drugs: inspections
Controlled drugs: monitoring
Dispensary Review of Use of Medicines (DRUM)
Disposal (general medications)
Expiry date checking
Home delivery
Insulin (dispensing)
Interventions and problem solving
Lithium (dispensing)
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
Pharmaceutical assessment
Recalls (updated April 2017)
Risk management
Room temperature monitoring
SOP review
Specials: ordering
Stock (ordering)
Stock (receiving)
Taking in Prescriptions
Transferring Dispensed Items to Patients
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