PART IIICONDUCT OF CHILDREN'S HOMES
CHAPTER 1Welfare of Children
Medicines21.
(1)
The registered person shall make suitable 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 them—
(i)
under or by virtue of the National Health Service Act 1977; or
(ii)
as part of the performance of personal medical services in connection with a pilot scheme under the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997; or