Why this matters for your registration
- •Medicines management is a major safety area for CQC registration.
- •CQC wants to see safe processes for administration, storage, recording, consent and escalation.
- •The policy should match the actual medicines support your service intends to provide.
What you should prepare
- •How medication needs will be assessed and reviewed.
- •Different levels of medicines support and what staff can and cannot do.
- •Arrangements for consent, refusals, mental capacity and best-interest decisions.
- •Safe administration, MAR governance, storage, disposal and incident reporting procedures.
- •PRN medicines, covert administration, controlled drugs, transport and delegated tasks where relevant.
- •Training, competency and escalation arrangements for staff.