Regulation 13 Health and welfare of patientsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

The registered person shall ensure that the nursing home is conducted so as –

(a)

to promote and make proper provision for the nursing, health and welfare of patients;

(b)

to make proper provision for the nursing and where appropriate, treatment and supervision of patients.

(2)

The registered person shall so far as practicable enable patients to make decisions with respect to the nursing they are to receive and their health and welfare.

(3)

The registered person shall, for the purpose of providing nursing to patients, and making proper provision for their health and welfare, so far as practicable, ascertain and take into account their wishes and feelings.

(4)

Subject to paragraph (5), the registered person shall make suitable arrangements for the ordering, storage, stock control, recording, handling, safe keeping, safe administration and disposal of medicines used in or for the purposes of the nursing home to ensure that –

(a)

any medicine which is kept in a nursing home is stored in a secure place; and

(b)

medicine which is prescribed is administered as prescribed to the patient for whom it is prescribed, and to no other patient; and

(c)

a written record is kept of the administration of any medicine to a patient.

(5)

Paragraph (4) does not apply to medicine which –

(a)

is stored by the individual 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 individual.

(6)

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^f1; or

(b)

prescribed for a patient under F1regulation 214 or 215 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012

(7)

The registered person shall make suitable arrangements to minimise the risk of infection and toxic conditions and the spread of infection between patients and staff.

(8)

The registered person shall make suitable arrangements to ensure that the nursing home is conducted –

(a)

in a manner which respects the privacy and dignity of patients;

(b)

with due regard to the sex, religious persuasion, ethnic origin, and cultural and linguistic background and any disability of patients.

(9)

The registered provider and registered manager (if any) shall, in relation to the conduct of the nursing home –

(a)

maintain good personal and professional relationships with each other and with patients and staff; and

(b)

encourage and assist staff to maintain good personal and professional relationships with patients.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 13(6)(b) substituted (14.8.2012) by The Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916), reg. 1(2), Sch. 34 para. 114 (with Sch. 32)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 13 in operation at 1.4.2005, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)