SCHEDULE 8 poisons returned from aged care homes and from the public to pharmacies continue to increase in quantity constituting a risk, the Victorian Pharmacy Authority (VPA) has said in its August circular to pharmacy license holders and pharmacies.
The VPA emphasised that S8 medicines should be secured before destruction given that pilfering or theft will not be deterred by an S8 dispensing label.
The public consultation around VPA draft guidelines as described in yesterday's Pharmacy Daily is also accessible through the circular.
Other issues in the communication include workload level recommendations, client privacy matters, inspection reports, planogram compliance, poisons regulation compliance examples, electronic S8 registers, age-and-weigh-based paediatric dosing, compounding and more.
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