Legislation, Policies and Procedures

What do I have to do?
You must be able to identify the range of legislation relating to the control and administration of medicines, the workplace policies that require you to work in accordance with those standards and assess how they effect the way you work.

Help
Your training and your employer’s medication policy will be designed to include the legal Acts of Parliament, regulations and guidelines that control the way you work. It would be helpful for you to find out which controls apply and how they effect the way you work.

1 What is the Medicine Act 1968?
Introduced following the thalidomide tragedy in the 1960s, the Act divides drugs into three categories, depending on the dangers they pose and the risk of being misused. …