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This month Numark Information
Services Team brings you…

Common Controlled

Drug questions

The Information Services Team is available to assist Numark members with any
Controlled Drug (CD) questions they may encounter in their daily practice. These are
the four most common ones:
Appropriate Date
Pharmacies will often receive a batch of instalment prescriptions from their Substance
Misuse partners and they will all be dated by the prescriber at the same time but will
be supplied for the next few months’ treatment. Everyone is aware that the validity
of a CD prescription for schedule 2, 3 and 4 is 28 days, but the use of an appropriate
date allows the production of several prescriptions for each patient at the same time.
The appropriate date is either the signature date or any other date indicated on
the prescription (by the prescriber) as a date before which the drugs should not be
supplied – whichever is later.

Example:

This is the

appropriate date

This is the
signature date

In this example, even though
the prescription was dated 1st
October, it would be valid from
11th November for 28 days.

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