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The Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015

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

(2) In particular the registered person must ensure that—

(a)medicines kept in the home are stored in a secure place so as to prevent any child from having unsupervised access to them;

(b)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 record is kept of the administration of medicine to each child.

(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply to medicine which—

(a)is stored by the child for whom it is provided in such a way that other persons 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 the patient, under or by virtue of the National Health Service Act 2006 or section 176(3) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003(1); or

(b)in a case not falling within sub-paragraph (a), prescribed for a patient in accordance with regulation 217 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012(2).

(2)

S.I. 2012/1916, as amended by S.I. 2014/490.

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