Concern over extemporaneous preparation of methadone oral solution

摘要

The Council is to develop a policy on the extemporaneous preparation of methadone oral solution.At the December Council meeting,the Law and Ethics Committee suggested that a policy was needed because of the availability of licensed products.The Code of Ethics currently requires that "Where a product is ordered on prescription a pharmacist must supply a product with a marketing authorisation,where such a product exists and is available,in preference to an unlicensed medicine or food supplement." Additionally,service specification 21(Extemporaneous preparation/compounding)states:"A product should only be extemporaneously prepared when there is no product with a marketing authorisation available and where the pharmacist is able to prepare the product in compliance with accepted standards."