PART III

CONDUCT OF CHILDREN'S HOMES
CHAPTER 1

Welfare of Children

Medicines
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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
b
in a case not falling within sub-paragraph (a), prescribed for a patient under section 58 of the Medicines Act 1968 .
1968 c. 67. Section 58 has been amended by section 1 of the Medicinal Products: Prescription by Nurses etc. Act 1992 (c. 28).