Changes to the CD regs?

[skeggysteve]

I collected my wife's 'scipt today and they told me that Tramadol was now a CD but the other CD (morphine patches) had been 'downgraded' but were still a CD.

We have had three different GPs since my wife started with the patches and all three have treated the CDs differently.

So do any GPs or pharmacists know if the CD regs have changed or is our new GPs as bad as I feel they are?

[shed driver]

Tramodol is now treated as a Controlled Drug in my hospital Trust. I assume that this is a national thing.

SD.

[andy118run]

Schedule 3 (Controlled Drugs - no register)
•Includes a small number of minor stimulant drugs and other drugs which are less likely to be misused than the drugs in Schedule 2.
•Examples are the barbiturates (except secobarbital, now Schedule 2), buprenorphine, diethylpropion, mazindol, meprobamate, midazolam, pentazocine, phentermine, and temazepam.
•The government has now placed tramadol in Schedule 3 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 but with exemption from the safe custody requirements.[2]
•Are exempt from safe custody requirements and can be stored on the open dispensary shelf except for temazepam, buprenorphine and diethylpropion, which must be stored in a locked CD receptacle.
•Are subject to the same special handwriting requirements as Schedule 2 CDs.
•There is no legal requirement to record transactions in a CD register.
•The requirements relating to destruction do not apply unless the CDs are manufactured by the individual.
•Invoices must be retained for a minimum of two years.

[skeggysteve]

Thanks for the replies.

It just seemed odd that we changed GPs and the regs changed at the same time.

But as I said it seems that different GPs/dispensing places treat CDs differently.