Midlands Controlled Drugs Winter Newsletter

Please find linked here the Winter 2023 issue of the Midlands’ Controlled Drugs Team newsletter which contains guidance and information/links regarding:

• How to contact your local NHSE Midlands CD Team
• New contact details for Fraudulent Prescription Form Reward Scheme
• Pharmacies – Do you have Obsolete or Out of Date CDs piled up awaiting destruction? – guidance
• Nitrous Oxide – changes to governing legislation
• Medicines collection by a Representative on behalf of a drug misuse patient
• Shortage of Medicines to treat ADHD
• Guidance for Dentists – Prescription Safety
• Misuse of Drugs Regulations – changes to legislation
• T28 Exemption Certificates – Denaturing Controlled Drugs
• Occurrence Report Submission reminder dates for Designated Bodies
• How to report CD incidents or concerns to your NHSE CDAO on-line; including sample types of events to report, and the difference between incidents and concerns (this page can be printed as a poster and kept in your CD Register to act as a staff reminder to report incidents and/or concerns relating to CDs)

Please make this newsletter available to all relevant members of your team to read.

REMINDER: This CD Newsletter will also be made available for you to view on the CDReporting Programme (via www.cdreporting.co.uk) in your area’s log-in, under the “Resources” section.