Useful links
Care Quality Commission
- Controlled Drugs guidance for providers
- Disposing of medicines in care homes and care homes with nursing
- Nigel’s surgery 28: Management of controlled drugs
- The safer management of Controlled Drugs: Annual Report
- Optimising medicines during end of life care
- Controlled Drugs National Group and newsletters
Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group
DataPharm
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010
- Waste exemption: T28 sort and denature controlled drugs for disposal
Environment Agency
Department of Health and Social Care
- Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management (the ‘Orange Book’)
- The Controlled Drugs (Supervision of Management and Use) Regulations 2013
- The Human Medicines Regulations 2012
- The Health Act 2006
- Guidance on the destruction of Controlled Drugs – New role for Accountable Officers
Home Office
- Controlled drugs: licences, fees and returns
- Controlled Drugs List
- Drug Licensing Factsheet- Cannabis, CBD and other cannabinoids
- Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
- Security guidance for all existing or prospective Home Office Controlled Drug Licensees and/or Precursor Chemical Licensees or Registrants
- The Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) Regulations 1973
- The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001
Live Well with Pain
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management
- Benzodiazepine and z-drug withdrawal
- Controlled drugs: safe use and management
- Medicines optimisation in long-term pain
- NICE Guidelines
- NICE Medicines Optimisation in Long Term Pain
NHS Counter Fraud Authority
NHS England
- Controlled Drugs incidents in organisations without their own Accountable Officer (e.g. community pharmacy and general practice) should be reported online
- Cannabis-based products for medicinal use
- Controlled Drugs Single Operating Model
- Spotting a forged or fraudulent prescription
- www.cdreporting.co.uk
- A Just Culture Guide
- Faye’s story: good practice when prescribing opioids for chronic pain
NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service
- How should dentists prescribe, store, order and dispose of controlled drugs?
PrescQIPP CIC
Dealing with Drug Seeking Behaviour Webinar
Primary Care Support England
Public Health England
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Safe and secure handling of medicines
- Professional Guidance on the Administration of Medicines in Healthcare Settings