Controlled Drug handwriting requirements end next week

摘要

Doctors will no longer have to hand-write prescriptions for Controlled Drugs from 14 November.The Misuse of Drugs and the Misuse of Drugs (Supply to Addicts) (Amendment) Regulations 2005,which come into effect on that date,revoke the long-standing requirement that prescriptions for CDs be handwritten.They also introduce the possibility of keeping records of CD supplies electronically,rather than only in a bound book or register.