Regulation 13 Use and Storage of Medicines

(1)

The registered person shall make suitable arrangements for the safekeeping of any medicine on relevant premises.

(2)

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

(a)

relevant children are prevented from having unsupervised access to any medicine;

(b)

any medicine which is prescribed for a relevant 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 a relevant child.

(3)

In this regulation, “prescribed” means—

(a)

ordered for a patient for provision to them—

(i)

under or by virtue of section 41 of the National Health Service Act 1977^f1; 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^f2; or

(b)

in a case not falling within sub-paragraph (a), prescribed for a patient under section 58 of the Medicines Act 1968^f3.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1977 c. 49.
f2: 1997 c. 46.
f3: 1968 c. 67. Section 58 has been amended by section 1 of the Medicinal Products Prescription by Nurses Act 1992 (c. 28).