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Use of PGDs by trainee registered healthcare professionals

8 September 2020Advice on the use of Patient Group Directions by registered healthcare professionals who are undertaking training and/or competency assessment

Bank and agency staff and Patient Group Directions

25 February 2020The below summarises the advice on the use of PGDs by bank and agency staff working within organisations.

When and how can dentists supply medicines?

28 November 2019The attached Medicines Q&A aims to explain the legal status of medicines in the UK and when and how they may be supplied by dentists to patients

Regulatory requirements for export of ATMP starting materials: Pan UK Pharmacy Working Group on ATMPs

27 September 2019Regulatory export requirements for hospitals procuring (harvesting) patient’s own cells/tissues for use as starting materials in the manufacture of ATMPs.

Guidance on Definition of Supervision under Section 10 Aseptic Preparation Activities, 3rd Edition, Sep 2019 (Yellow Cover)

3 September 2019The NHS Aseptic Services Accreditation Working Group, working closely with the South West Product Approval Accreditation Programme have developed and published a definition of Supervision…

DS 21/75 Prescription Charges for Drugs Given to Patients in Clinical Trials (Department of Health and Social Security, 1975)

2 April 2019In 2019, this remains the only known documented government guidance to the NHS on the subject.

The Responsibilities of Chief Pharmacists for Radiopharmaceuticals (Yellow Cover)

28 April 2017Chief Pharmacist responsibilities with respect to radiopharmaceuticals have come more to the fore recently as a result of changes to the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure)…

Risk Associated with the Outsourcing of the Aseptic Compounding of Parenteral Nutrition (Yellow Cover)

16 December 2016The purpose of this document is to give guidance to those outsourcing PN compounding on the risks in the outsourcing and supply process and to…

How should dentists prescribe, store, order and dispose of controlled drugs?

6 June 2016This updated Q&A aims to explain controlled drug legislation relevant to primary care dental practice. Includes prescribing for NHS and private patients, ordering/requisitioning, storage and…

Registration of Quality Controllers (MGPS) (Yellow Cover)

11 March 2016In 1972 Hospital Technical Memorandum No. 22 (HTM 22) was published ‘Piped Medical Gases, Medical Compressed Air and Vacuum Installations’ as a direct result of…