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1. Authorised officer needs to destroyed pharmacy stock. Pharmacist can destroy patient returns - good practice to have a member of staff witness you doing this and NPA has a book for recording the process.

2. It is a legal requirement to check who is collecting the medication but you do not have to see ID to hand it out. If person collecting is a healthcare professional - the pharmacist MUST ask for ID but has discretion to supply if person has no ID.

3. I presume you mean drugs that are classed as "calender or special packs" The Drug Tariff displays a symbol next to each drug in part VIII that it recognises as a calender or special pack. This means that payment is automatically based on multiples of that pack size and whilst you can split them up to give the exact amount, common practice is to just give the complete pack to avoid cutting up the strips.
PSNC produce a list of all special containers/calender packs - up to you if you choose to learn them! Probably easier to be familiar with the common ones.

4. No experience of electronic CD register yet - don't think they are common practice yet.

5. Eclipse - I'm assuming you are meaning ETP, not sure if Eclipse can do ETP. I would ring Eclipse helpline and ask them for any info as from memory it does not have a help function built into it so very much depends on trial and error to find out how to do things!!