Medicine Policy

Medicine Policy

by: bev - 13-07-05 12:10

I'm just in the process of reviewing my medicines policy with regard to the Department of Health publication "Managing Medicines in Schools and Early Years Settings".

They are saying that non-prescription drugs should not normally be given. the guidance to the national standards suggest that you can give non prescription drugs with the prior witten consent of the parents. We have always allowed parents to consent to eg calpol, providing they give a set time for it to be given.

It's easier to say no to non prescription medicines when you just deal with over 3's but we have babies who are constantly teething etc who need teething gel, calpol and the like from time to time.

Im just curious to see what other settings do.

by: whichnursery

hi
In my setting, we have medication forms for parents to fill out. This is for both Non-prescibed medication and prescribed medication. We administer colpol etc as we have alot of babies which are teething and also children who are prone to high temperatures. So not being able to administer non-prescibed medication such as capol would have a huge impact on the service that we provide and the reliability for working parents who would have to take time of work if their child was teething etc, which is unrealtistic.

Tina

Medicine Policy - 15-07-05 06:32

by: Shelli

I workin a large nursery and we also have are not able to administer non-prescription drugs.

However we have two that we do administer -liquid paracetamol and teething gel.

Anything else must be prescribed. So that means we can't give thing like Tixilicks or Piriton unless the parents have visited the doctor first