The Children’s Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Medicines

20.—(1) The registered person shall make arrangements for the recording, handling, safekeeping, safe administration and disposal of any medicines received into the children’s home.

(2) In particular the registered person shall ensure, subject to paragraph (3), that –

(a) any medicine which is kept in a children’s home is stored in a secure place so as to prevent any child accommodated there having unsupervised access to it;

(b) any medicine which is prescribed for a child is administered as prescribed, to the child for whom it is prescribed, and to no other child; and

(c) a written record is kept of the administration of any medicine to any child.

(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply to a medicine which –

(a) is stored by the child for whom it is provided in such a way that others are prevented from using it; and

(b) may be safely self-administered by that child.

(4) In this regulation, “prescribed” means –

(a) ordered for a patient for provision to him under Part VI of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(1); or

(b) prescribed for a patient under section 58 of the Medicines Act 1968(2).

(1)

S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)

(2)

1968 c. 67; as amended by paragraph 7 of Part II of Schedule 2 to the Medicines (Specified Articles and Substances) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/968)