Pharmaceutical Waste

Useful contacts like waste providers can be found here; https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/info-professional/pharm-info/sw-pharm/

Pre-Acceptance Waste Audit 

Hazardous Medicines

Cytotoxic and cytostatic medicines are automatically hazardous waste. A list of hazardous waste is available in 07-01 Safe Management of Healthcare Waste (pages 219 -.221)

Disposal of unwanted medicines – Community Pharmacy England (cpe.org.uk)

Identifying types of pharmaceutical waste and disposal containers – SPS – Specialist Pharmacy Service – The first stop for professional medicines advice

Website link

Contact Details

If you are from a Community Pharmacy in Devon,  and have a query, please email  england.pharmacysouthwest@nhs.net