Transcript Control of dogs at home:

Human medicines
Medicines Act
1981
Medicines regulations
1984
Human Medicine
Are vets allowed to prescribe human
medicine which are not licensed animal
remedies?
Yes but this is “off licence” use.
Human Medicine
The medicines act and regulations only
apply to human medicines.
Vets may prescribe and dispense human
drugs for animals under their care.
If using human medicines they must stick
to the provisions of the medicines act and
regulations.
Storage of medicines
Prescription or restricted medicine must
not be put:
where food or drink are stored or kept
for ready use,
or any place to which young children or
unauthorised persons have ready
access.
Packing and preparing of medicines
Packing and preparing of medicines must
not:
Be in any room, or on any table or
bench, that is used for the purpose of
packing, preparing, or consuming any
food or drink.
Storage and delivery of medicines
Prescription or restricted medicine must
not left in an unattended building or
vehicle
unless the building or vehicle is secured
against unlawful entry
or the part of it in which the medicine is
kept.
Misuse of Drugs
Misuse of Drugs Act
1975
Drugs of abuse
Is designed to stop people abusing
addictive drugs or drugs with potential for
abuse.
Vets are allowed to supply, prescribe and
administer Class B or C controlled drugs.
Class A: LSD, heroin, cocaine,
etorphine.
Class B: opioids eg morphine.
Class C: barbiturates, buprenorphine,
benzodiazepines, ketamine.
Controlled drugs must be secured (locked
up) when not in use.
Secured means locked in a metal or
concrete cabinet secured (bolted down) to
the building and keys kept elsewhere.
Class B drugs must have usage recorded.
Registers must at each branch Class B
stored or used.
Properly bound book, not a ringbinder
or folder.
Only for the purpose of recording the
controlled drugs.
Kept for two years after the last entry.
Class B drugs register:
Each drug should have its own page or
section.
Pages must be numbered.
Date order,
Entries made within 24 hours of the drug
being used.
Written in indelible ink.
No entry may be altered or removed.
Corrections are in the margin or at the foot of
the page. No correction fluid or erasing etc.
 Class B drugs register:
 Records:
the purchase,
use, including details of:
date used,
quantity,
patient and
owner.
The person administering the drug (a vet)
should countersign the entry.
disposal
and stock on hand of all Class B drugs