SOP Manager

Pharmacy SOP management software built for community pharmacy

Everything you need to write, personalise, approve, share and evidence your standard operating procedures, in one secure online system for every branch, member of staff and locum.

SOP Manager dashboard showing approved pharmacy SOPs, staff sign-off progress and reviews due

The SOP library

65 SOPs across eight areas of pharmacy practice

Each SOP sets out its purpose, scope, responsibilities and step-by-step procedure, with the GPhC standards and legal basis it supports and a recommended review period.

Governance & Responsible Pharmacist

RP sign-in and absence, managing SOPs, complaints, incidents and near misses, clinical governance, information governance and DSPT, business continuity.

Dispensing

Prescription reception, clinical and legal checks, assembly and labelling, accuracy checking, handout, owings, eRD, emergency supply, compliance aids, delivery and EPS.

Controlled drugs

Ordering and receipt, prescription validity, register and running balances, safe custody, destruction and witnessing, instalment and supervised consumption.

Clinical services

Pharmacy First, New Medicine Service, Discharge Medicines Service, hypertension case-finding, contraception, vaccinations and travel clinic.

Medicines management

Ordering, storage and date checking, cold chain and fridge monitoring, quarantine and returns, patient-returned and waste medicines.

Staff & safeguarding

Induction of staff and locums, recruitment checks, supervision and appraisal, safeguarding children and adults, chaperoning, staffing levels.

Counter & self-care

Sales of medicines and questioning protocols, medicines liable to misuse, healthy living campaigns, signposting and referral.

Premises & equipment

Cleaning and infection control, security, health and safety and COSHH, equipment calibration, accessibility, IT and smartcards.

Features

Everything in one place

Setup questions

60 questions about how your pharmacy works. Answer once for the whole group or per branch, and your details appear in every matching SOP. Gaps are highlighted until they’re filled.

Version control & reviews

Edit, approve and issue new versions with a change note. Previous versions are kept, review dates are tracked and staff are asked to re-sign.

Read-and-sign with check questions

Multiple-choice questions confirm understanding before staff e-sign by re-entering their password. Turn questions on or off for each SOP.

Staff, roles & locums

Assign SOPs by role and branch. Give locums access until a set date. See each person’s training record at a glance.

GPhC standards map

See which SOPs cover each of the GPhC standards for registered pharmacies and Responsible Pharmacist requirements, and where the gaps are.

CPAF readiness & inspection pack

Record evidence per branch for the Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework and download a printable inspection pack.

Built for groups

Run several branches from one account with branch-specific answers, staff and sign-off tracking.

Security & audit trail

Two-step verification, hashed passwords, automatic lock-out after repeated failed sign-ins, data separated by organisation and every action logged.

Works on any device

Nothing to install. Use SOP Manager on phones, tablets, till PCs and laptops through any modern browser.

For your team

Designed for a busy dispensary

Staff see only what applies to them, read in plain English and sign in seconds. Weekly emails remind people of anything outstanding, so you don’t have to.

  • Clear “to read” list for every person
  • Short check questions written for each SOP
  • Signature history kept for every version
A pharmacy team member answering a check question before e-signing a controlled drugs SOP on a phone

See SOP Manager working in your pharmacy

Try every feature free for 14 days, with the full SOP library loaded.