NHSE Midlands’ Controlled Drugs Newsletter – Summer 2023
Tuesday 29th August 2023
From the NHSE Midlands Controlled Drugs Team:
The Summer 2023 issue of the Midlands’ Controlled Drugs Team newsletter is available to download here: Midlands CD Newsletter – Summer 2023
This issue contains guidance and information/links regarding:
- How to contact your local NHSE Midlands CD Team
- Reducing Harm from Opioids
- NICE Publication – Benzodiazepines and Z-drugs
- Controlled Drug (CD) Incidents and Concerns involving patients on Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST)
- Post-dated prescriptions – reminder advice
- Findings of Prescribing Monitoring – Gabapentin
- Procedure Reminder – Out of Date / Obsolete CD Destructions in Community Pharmacies and GP Surgeries
- Reporting incidents and concerns relating to CDs to NHS England
- Serious Incident (infant morphine overdose) – investigation summary and learning for prevention
Please could you 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 CD Reporting Programme (via www.cdreporting.co.uk) in your area’s log-in, under the “Resources” section.
Tuesday 29th August 2023
