Disposal of Medicinal Products by the. Pharmacy Department • All medicinal products for destruction will be placed in the appropriate destruction containers. Separate containers exist for aerosols, cytotoxic waste and for other medication. • Controlled Drugs should be destroyed in accordance with departmental policy that renders then unsalvageable. They should then by placed within the appropriate containers for destruction. See Policy for the Management of Controlled Drugs1. • All of the containers for destruction must be accounted for at the time of collection and a signature obtained for the dispatcher. All containers will be incinerated in accordance with the Health Board’s Waste Management Policy19. When medicinal products supplied for patients while they are in hospital are no longer required, the label on the container must be crossed with a Z to indicate they are no longer required. On acute wards they should be retained on the xxxx in a locked cupboard for the pharmacy staff to sort. On community hospital wards they should be returned to pharmacy. The xxxx pharmacist must be informed by the nurse in charge if stock items are no longer required at xxxx level so that adjustments can be made to the stock lists at xxxx and pharmacy level. A written list of medicinal products being returned to the pharmacy department must be prepared and sent with the items to the pharmacy in a locked or sealed container or handed to a pharmacist or pharmacy technician. A copy of the list must be kept in the xxxx or department. Medicinal products that are out of date or no longer required must be returned to the pharmacy department in a locked or sealed container. Expired items must be marked “Expired”. When small volume injections, infusion solutions and other products have been opened at xxxx or department level and it is not practical to return them to the pharmacy, the remaining contents of the container must be disposed of via the xxxx or department’s sluice system or other direct sewage access point. The residual contents of opened live vaccine containers must be returned for disposal in YELLOW sharps bins in accordance with the Waste Management Policy19 for the Health Board. Community Psychiatric Nurses must keep a record of any drugs returned to the pharmacy department and obtain a receipt. Medicinal products must be disposed of in accordance with current legislation and the Health Board’s Waste Management Policy19.
