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Standard operating procedures for practice dispensaries

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