Occupational health schemes
Pharmacists are reminded that they are able to supply medicines, except Controlled Drugs, to persons operating occupational health schemes.
An “occupational health scheme” means a scheme in which a
person, in the course of a business carried on by him, provides facilities
for his employees for the treatment or prevention of disease.
Prescription-only medicines (POMs) may only be supplied to the person
operating the scheme in response to an order in writing signed by a doctor
or a registered nurse.
The individual supplying the POM to the patient, if not a doctor, must
be a registered nurse acting in accordance with the written instructions
of a doctor. The written directions should state the circumstances in
which the POM in question should be used. The supply must only be made
in the course of an occupational health scheme.
The administration of parenteral POMs shall be in the course of an occupational
health scheme. The individual administering the POM to the patient, if
not a doctor nor a person acting in accordance with the directions of
a doctor, must be a registered nurse acting in accordance with the written
instructions of a doctor. The written directions should state the circumstances
in which the POM in question should be used.
Schools with in-house matrons and nurses who treat pupils do not fall
within the definition of an “occupational health scheme”. |
The
Pharmaceutical Journal