Time to complete:
10 minutes
Date of publication:
July 2020
Reviewed and updated:
November 2020
Current legislation says that once a prescribed medicine has been issued to a patient it is for their use only – it cannot be used for another patient and if returned to a pharmacy it must be destroyed. This runs the risk of wastage of end of life medicines which are often prescribed on a ‘just in case’ basis. This short module discusses the medicines re-use scheme which allows for the re-use of certain medicines in care homes or hospices, if there is a shortage and re-use is in a patient’s best interests.
This module was developed by RCGP Learning.
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Time to complete this course: 15 minutes
Date of publication: 10 July 2020
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