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3. Drug Alerts and Medicine Recalls
Numark Resource:
• Do you keep a record of the action taken to Patient Safety and
maintain an audit trail? The Numark Patient Drug-Device Alerts
Safety and Drug-Device Alerts SOP contains a SOP
template table which can be utilised to record the
actions taken by your team upon receipt of a drug
alert / recall.

4. Topiramate Numark Resource:

• Do your team understand the MHRA drug safety New SOP Dispensing
update on new measures for topiramate? This and Checking
is something the inspectors are asking about of Topiramate
during an inspection visit. Have you seen the new Containing Medicines
Numark SOP for dispensing topiramate containing
medicines?

5. Expiry Date Checks

Numark Resource:
• Do you keep records of routine expiry date Date Checking of
checking activity? This is something the
inspectors will request during an inspection Dispensary
visit. The Numark SOPs for Date Checking of
Dispensary and Date Checking of Counter contain
template Date Control Sheets can be utilised to Date Checking of
record this evidence Counter Stock

6. Oral Liquid Medicines

• We find that many teams annotate the bottle Numark Resource:
with the date of opening and expected expiry Date Checking of
date before it is returned to the shelf. However, Dispensary
these medicines are not always discarded at the
appropriate time after first opening the bottle and
in some cases bottles are left on the dispensary
shelves many months after the shortened expiry
date has passed.

• The Numark SOP for Date Checking of Dispensary
contains a template Stock Expiring Within 6
Months sheet that can be used to highlight the
reduced shelf-life of these oral liquid medicines

Find out more and book your
Regulatory Health Check at
numarknet.com/health-check

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