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Leicestershire Medicines Code

This is the third edition of the Leicestershire Health Authority Policy for the Ordering, Dispensing, Storage, Prescription and Administration of Medicines now called the Leicestershire Medicines Code. The Policy was produced as a result of the need to define precisely the roles and
responsibilities of all health care professionals involved and concerned in the ordering, storage, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines. The Policy is applicable to all Leicestershire Health Authority premises and NHS Trusts within Leicestershire.

These files are held on the Leicestershire Prescriber Web Site and are all Adobe Reader files.

Please be aware that author identification is not always clear within these files.

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Table of Contents
  Leicestershire Medicines Code
  Introduction
  Supply of Drugs By Pharmacy
  Dispensing of Individual Prescriptions
  Storage of Medicines
  Balances, Losses and Stock Discrepancies
  Return of Stock Drugs or Individually dispensed Medicines no longer required
  Ward and Departmental Closures
  Patient's Own Medicines
  Prescribing
  Administration of Medicines
  Prescribing and Administration of Drugs in Children
  Prescribing, Dispensing and Administration of Unusual or Trial Medicines
  Prescribing, Dispensing and Administration of Cytotoxic Chemotherapy
  Self Administration
  Drugs in Operating Theatres, Clinic Areas, X-ray Departments and Other Specialist Areas
  Clinical Departments Where Qualified Nurses and Not Present
  Medicine Defect Reporting Procedure
  Errors In The Prescribing, Dispensing and Administration of Medicines
  Carriage, Storage and Administration of Medicines in the Community
  Community Midwives
  The Management of Diabetic Patients Involving Diabetes Specialist Nurses/Community Nurses
  Community Psychiatric Nurses/Community Learning Disability Nurses
  Vaccination and Immunisation: Community Nursing Service
  Stoma Care Nurses
  Community Physiotherapy Service
  Family Planning Clinics
  Chiropody
  Staffed Group Homes
  Quality Measures for Community Pharmacy Deliveries
  Use of Medicines By Paramedical Staff
  Record of Check of Controlled Drugs 
  Record of Controlled Drugs Brought into Hospital by Individual Patients
  Glossary