Medicines and Prescribing
Controlled Drugs
The Controlled Drugs (Supervision of Management and Use) Regulations 2006, resulted from the Shipman Inquiry in response to the need to strengthen the governance arrangements around controlled drugs.
PCTs are required to appoint an Accountable Officer for controlled drugs who is responsible for ensuring that the management and control arrangements for controlled drugs are robust.
These pages have links to many useful documents:-
The NPC - A guide to good practice in the management of controlled drugs in primary care ( England)  (447k) gives a valuable summary of the various legal requirements as well as good practice elements of prescribing and managing controlled drugs.
Royal Pharmaceutical Society Guidance on the destruction of controlled drugs is available here (148k).
The following link takes you to the Department of Health website section on Controlled drugs, with further links to recent changes in regulations.
Note : All the documents contained within the site are available for download in PDF format. You can download the Adobe Reader from the Adobe website.
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