Australia National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards Second Edition 4.13-4.15: Medicines information and decision support tools are available to clinicians; medicines are stored, distributed, cold-chain managed and disposed of per manufacturers' directions, legislation and jurisdictional requirements; and high-risk medicines are identified with a system for their safe storage, prescribing, dispensing and administration

What does 4.13-4.15 require?

Clinicians must have medicines information and decision aids to hand. Storage, distribution, cold chain and disposal of medicines must follow the makers' directions, legislation and jurisdictional rules, including for temperature-sensitive products and unwanted or expired stock. The medicines that carry the greatest risk must be named, with a system that stores, prescribes, dispenses and administers them safely.