Medication storage & dispensing log

Yard managers and anyone with key-holder responsibility.

• ◆Specify a compliant storage cabinet
• ◆Maintain a dispensing log that satisfies VMD requirements
• ◆Manage cold-chain medication safely
• ◆Dispose of waste medication legally

1. 01.

   Storage standards

   Temperature, lock, separation, light.

   • ·Cabinet specification: locks, lighting, materials
   • ·Separating POM-V, POM-VPS and NFA-VPS products
   • ·Cold-chain management: fridge log, calibration, failure protocol
   • ·Access control — who holds keys and how that is recorded
2. 02.

   Dispensing records

   What to log, when, who signs.

   • ·Required fields on every dispense — VMD minimums and best practice
   • ·Walk-through of a paper register and a digital alternative
   • ·Counter-signing, witness rules and timing
   • ·Common audit findings and how to remediate them in 24 hours
3. 03.

   Disposal & returns

   DOOP bins, expired stock, sharps.

   • ·Hazardous-waste classification of equine medicines
   • ·DOOP bin contracts and waste-transfer notes
   • ·Sharps protocols across the yard
   • ·Returning unopened POM-V to your vet — paperwork required

Photograph your current medicine cabinet (interior) and bring a sample page from your dispensing log.

Submit a redacted week of dispensing records and a photo of your remediated cabinet within 14 days.

• §Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013 (as amended)
• §VMD 'Guidance on the use of cascade'
• §RCVS Practice Standards Scheme — medicines module