[DavidS]

Not so important from a patient safety point of view, but much more so for a pharmacist safety point of view:

I've noticed that CD's are a bloody nightmare. There is so much to "tie up." What I've started doing is, having completed the dispensing, checking the balance in the register against the cupboard before the stuff leaves the shop.

It doesn't work with the likes of methadone, of course, but with the odd one-off scripts it gives you a chance to sort out errors when you can do something about them.

[Additionally, from a safety point of view, its remarkable that with cds they expect us to add out of dates into the running balance, and to store them together, regardless of the safety issues, whereas if we did that with normal stock - well, I've seen it mentioned as bad practice in stat comm proceedings.]