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The Controlled Drugs (Supervision of Management and Use) Regulations 2006

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Accountable officers to ensure relevant individuals receive appropriate training etc.

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13.—(1) An accountable officer must—

(a)establish and operate, or ensure that his designated body establishes and operates; and

(b)ensure that a body or person acting on behalf of, or providing services under arrangements made with, his designated body establishes and operates,

the arrangements mentioned in paragraph (2).

(2) Those arrangements are appropriate arrangements to ensure that persons who are—

(a)as regards the designated body, relevant individuals(1); and

(b)involved in prescribing, supplying, administering or disposing of controlled drugs,

receive, from time to time, appropriate training to carry out their responsibilities.

(3) The accountable officer must liaise with his designated body to ensure that arrangements are in place for the relevant individuals referred to in paragraph (2)—

(a)to receive information and, where appropriate, training on local standard operating procedures for controlled drugs when they first become involved in prescribing, supplying, administering or disposing of controlled drugs; and

(b)to be informed when any local standard operating procedures for controlled drugs are subsequently reviewed or amended.

(1)

The expression “relevant individual” is defined in section 17(8)(b) of the Health Act 2006.

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