Victorian Consolidated Regulations

DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 54

For the purposes of regulations 47(1)(c) and  48(1)(c), a pharmacist may supply a Schedule 4 poison or Schedule 8 poison to a patient in or at a hospital or day procedure centre in accordance with a chart instruction given on a hospital medication chart if—

        (a)     the pharmacist has seen the material that, under regulation 45(2) of the Commonwealth Regulations, an approved supplier must see before supplying a pharmaceutical benefit on the basis of a medication chart prescription; and

        (b)     the supply is to be undertaken by the pharmacist in the course of the pharmacist's practice at a pharmacy or pharmacy department connected to the hospital or day procedure centre.

Note

Regulation 61 requires the pharmacist to mark the hospital medication chart on supplying the poison.