Animal medicines improvement notice: Castlehill Veterinary Clinic – August 2019

This notice was issued to Castlehill Veterinary Clinic.

The following contravened the Veterinary Medicines Regulation (VMR) 2013:

• Failure to maintain adequate records of supply of veterinary medicines, contrary to regulation 23 (Records of the receipt or supply of prescription products) of the VMR
• Supplies of unauthorised veterinary medicines without valid Special Treatment Certificates, contrary to regulation 27 (Supply of an unauthorised veterinary medicine) of the VMR

The improvements required are:

• Evidence of recording must be provided to the VMD, with client & animal details, product, dose, volume, quantity and batch details
• Evidence of the systems put in place for all unauthorised supplies to have valid Special Treatment Certificates must be provided to the VMD