As a pharmaceutical licence holder, what specific requirements apply to retaining records of medicine purchases and sales?

Yes. Keeping detailed and accurate purchase and sales records is a basic legal responsibility of a licence holder and a core requirement of GDP and GSP. These records form the basis of medicine traceability. For wholesalers, each purchase record should include the supplier's name and address, the medicine name, dosage form, strength, quantity, batch number, and manufacturing/expiry dates. Each sales record should include the customer's name and address, details of the medicine and the dispatch date. For retail pharmacies, in addition to purchase records, records of sales of all prescription medicines must be kept, including the prescription date, patient's name, prescribing doctor's name, medicine name and quantity, and the name of the pharmacist responsible for dispensing. All these records must be properly maintained in written or electronic form for at least two years from the date of the transaction. They must be available for inspection at all times, and Department of Health inspectors are entitled to examine them during inspections.