HND Health and Social Care Medication Administration Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of good practices in the administration of medicine within health and social care settings, emphasizing the importance of empowering users. It examines the effectiveness of policies and procedures, highlighting how they safeguard against medication errors and ensure proper ordering, recording, maintenance, and disposal of drugs. The report also details current legislation, codes of practice, and policies, including the Medicines Act 1968 and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, emphasizing the role of managers in providing training and ensuring compliance. The report discusses the importance of using appropriate equipment, electronic record management, and timely medication replacement to enhance patient care. It also cites relevant codes of practice like Medicine management Policy, Code of Practice, September 2003 and the Aneurin Bevan Health Board Medicines Policy 2008, underscoring the principles of quality, legal, and safe practice. The report underscores the importance of staff compliance with regulations and the role of regular meetings in addressing issues and improving treatment outcomes.

Empowering Users of Health and Social Care
Understand how good practice in the administration of medicine is essential for users of health and
social care services.
Current legislation, codes of practice and policy that
apply to handling of medication
It is essential that all the employee complies with the rules
and regulations made by the government as well as code of
practices developed by various companies in the industry
to make sure that any kind of glitch does not occurs in the
practices. It is the role of the managers to ensure about this.
For doing so managers can give timely training to their
employees regarding the code of practices as well as
policies in this regard. Employees have to make sure that
they handle the medicine in a way that maximum benefit
can be achieved through it and users do not aver to suffer.
In this regard the equipment’s must be used as well as
electronic management of records is necessary. Expired
medicines needs to timely replaced with the new ones. It is
also necessary that timely meeting in this regard must be
taken so that all the information’s of every activity within
the workplace can be exchanged with the officials and
proper actions can be taken according to it. This also helps
in resolving the issues that has occurred in various
operations of the firm as well as providing the desired
treatment to the users.. Some of the major legislations in
this regard are:
 The medicines Act 1968
 Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
 The Misuse of Drug Act 2001
 The Misuse of Drugs Regulation 1973
Code of practices in this regard are:
Medicine management Policy, Code of Practice,
September 2003: It was the older code of practice.
The Aneurin Bevan Health Board Medicines Policy
2008: It aims to reflect present practices and incorporates
new development and alterations in legislation and the key
principles that underlines it are quality, legal and safe
practice.
Effectiveness of policies and procedures within a
health and social care setting for administering
medication.
All the above cited policies, code of practices as
well as procedures are highly effective in administering
medication as they provide the framework regarding it.
These policies and procedures helps in safeguarding the ill
practices in medication. Different kinds of policies help to
ensure that ordering, recording, maintenance and disposal
of drugs must be done in a proper way. Policies and
procedures helps in providing framework according to
which the prescription will be provided by the doctors. It
also suggests the norms regarding the medication that will
be used for recording all the details related with medicine
and the amount in which it has to be given to the users. It
also suggests about the disposable system that will be used
for disposing different kinds of medicines. There are some
of the medicine delivery equipment like injections have to
be disposed in a proper way so that it may not get in
contact with other people. These policies provide a proper
guideline of how the various kinds of medicines will be
stored and distributed among the patients as per their
requirement.