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'Guidelines for the safe and secure handling of medicines' - the 'Duthie' Report

17 September 2004The ‘Guidelines for the Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines’ was a report written by a Joint Subcommittee of the Standing Medical, Nursing and Midwifery,…

Positional Statement by the NHSPQA Committee PIC/S Guide to Good Practices for the Preparation of Medicinal Products In Healthcare Establishments 1st edition (Yellow Cover)

25 May 2010The PIC/S ‘Guide to Good Practices for the Preparation of Medicinal Products in Healthcare Establishments’ (PE 010-03) could be used to support the important role…

Guidance for the Purchase and Supply of Unlicensed Medicinal Products Notes for Prescribers and Pharmacists (Yellow Cover)

29 July 2013Recommendations to prescribers and pharmacists involved in the use or procurement of unlicensed medicines and guidance on the assessment of their quality

Generic audit tool: Safe and secure handling of medicines

11 September 2013A generic template is provided to assist the process of auditing safe and secure handling of medicines practices

Product Risk Assessment Tools

15 March 2016Product risk assessment tools to support NHS organisations to identify risk resultant from medicinal product presentation.

RMOC Recommendation: Standardising strengths of high risk, unlicensed oral liquids formulations for anti-TB medicines

9 April 2018At the meeting on 26th October 2017 the Regional Medicines Optimisation Committee (North) endorsed the approach put forward by the NHS Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance Committee…

Insulin preparations: RMOC recommendations of safety considerations for formulary decision making

22 June 2018At its meeting on 18th April 2018 the Regional Medicines Optimisation Committee (RMOC) (Midlands and East) reviewed issues pertaining to safety considerations when adopting any…

Guidance on Handling of Injectable Cytotoxic Drugs in Clinical Areas in in NHS Hospitals in the UK (Yellow Cover) Edition 1 July 2018

31 July 2018Intended audience: This document is intended as a reference and source of information to the following audiences: Nursing staff who handle cytotoxic chemotherapy (Oncology /…

Regional Medicines Optimisation Committee Antidotes Advisory Statement

17 June 2019The RMOC recommendation is in the process of being revised to reflect the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)/National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) 2021 updated…

National Homecare Medicines Committee (NHMC) Homecare Risk Assessment

10 December 2019To support organisations in establishing a robust risk assessment process for new homecare medicines services the NHMC has developed a tool for local use.  …