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Managing and Administering Controlled Drugs in Community Settings – Virtual (Open course)

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Course overview

This course will teach you how to put in place sensible (and achievable!) controls when managing and administering controlled drugs in the community. Included in this course is our standard operating procedure for managing controlled drugs in community settings. During the course we can discuss the controls we put in place and tailor this to your setting.

Course dates

11th December 2024

Aimed at

The course is aimed at managers in community care settings such as domiciliary care, supported living, shared lives and personal assistants.

Duration

3.5 hours

Certification

Two years (click here for details)

Course mapping

  • The Care Certificate
  • Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) 2014

Course content

See below (click to expand). Call us if you wish to discuss tailoring content to you.

Course content (click to expand)

By the end of the course you will be able to:

      • Be aware of the legislation and best practice (or lack of!) that govern the management of controlled drugs
      • Describe why some medicines are classified as controlled drugs
      • Describe the different schedules of controlled drugs, and which CDs fit into which schedules
      • Demonstrate how to establish how to identify the schedule of a CD
      • Identify how to risk assess the controls needed for a CD
      • Explain why some settings may choose to use a witness (and who they can be)
      • Understand how to correctly receive, administer, dispose of, and balance check controlled drugs and how to record this
      • Understand the rules and recording requirements when a person self-medicates with a controlled drug
      • Demonstrate how to deal with stock discrepancies
      • Demonstrate how to correct recording errors in CD running balances

Also available as

Face-to-face

Half-day

Workshop for up to 16 people

£675 (excluding VAT)

Virtual Webinar

Half-day

This is a virtual (Zoom) webinar course – closed course

£675 (excluding VAT) for up to 16 people