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
Electronic Medicines Compendium
Department for Environment, Food & 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
Guidance on the destruction of Controlled Drugs – New role for Accountable Officers
Home Office
Controlled drugs: licences, fees and returns
Drug Licensing Factsheet- Cannabis, CBD and other cannabinoids
The Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) Regulations 1973
The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001
Live Well with Pain
Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
National Institute for Health & Care Excellence
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
NHS Counter Fraud Authority
Management and control of prescription forms: A guide for prescribers and health organisations
NHS England & Improvement
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
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?
NICE
NICE Medicines Optimisation in Long Term Pain
PrescQIPP CIC
Dealing with Drug Seeking Behaviour Webinar
Primary Care Support England
Public Health England
The facts – gabatentin and pregabalin (A6 flyer)
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Safe and secure handling of medicines
Professional Guidance on the Administration of Medicines in Healthcare Settings
The Royal College of Anaesthetists
The Royal College of General Practitioners
Top Ten Tips: Dependence Forming Medications
University of Oxford
Prescribing of opioids (total oral morphine equivalence) in primary care