The Residential Holiday Schemes for Disabled Children (England) Regulations 2013

Medicines

18.—(1) The registered person must make suitable arrangements for the disposal, handling, recording, safe administration and safekeeping of any medicines held, kept or received for the purpose of the care of children accommodated by the scheme.

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

(a) any such medicine is stored in a secure place so as to prevent children accommodated by the scheme from having unsupervised access to it;

(b) any medicine which is prescribed for a child is administered as prescribed; and

(c) a written record is kept of the administration of any medicine to a 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 pursuant to 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).

(1)

2003 c.43 (“the 2003 Act”).

(2)

S.I. 2012/1916.