All community pharmacies (CPs) currently accept patient returned medicine waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In NHS Fife all CPs are also paid an annual retention fee each year in order to provide the sharps disposal service<\/a> and should ensure that appropriate staff (including locums) are aware of the service level agreement and SOP<\/a> that facilitates patients to return medical sharps to any community pharmacy in Fife. Note: this should not be confused with the Injection Equipment Service (IEP)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NHS Fife Transport Services provides a 5-weekly scheduled service for the uplift of medicines and sharps waste and the delivery of replacement containers for both patients and the pharmacy. Should any pharmacy require a more frequent uplift please contact NHS Fife Transport Services by telephoning 01592 647167<\/strong> [Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm].<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NEW Community Pharmacy Waste Update can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a>Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![<\/a>Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe NEW Community Pharmacy Waste Update can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nClick here<\/a> for the Community Pharmacy Waste poster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All community pharmacies (CPs) currently accept patient returned medicine waste. In NHS Fife all CPs are also paid an annual retention fee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":43,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/217"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-fife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/media\/5787\/20220627-waste-containers.jpg\"){kind=link}