If you are working in a National Health Hospital, Doctors Surgery or Care Home you will, no doubt, have received thorough and in-depth training on the importance of the safe handling of medication. This level of intensive training could have been provided by a professional company such as https://www.tidaltraining.co.uk/health-and-social-care-courses/safe-handling-medication-training who are leaders in this field of expertise. Teaching their candidates the moral responsibility of keeping confidential medical records filed and stored securely and reminding them of the high level of respect expected for a patient’s autonomy.
All of these three medical Care facilities have full patient records and must file them accordingly, confidentially, securely and only able to be accessed by the doctors, nurses or Care staff that support and tend to the patients and residents at each location. Patients need to trust their medical practitioners and Care Home residents need the security and comfort of having their right medication delivered to them at the right time and in the right dose. Keeping records safe and confidential in a Doctors Surgery is just as important as in a hospital or Care Home setting, and having confident staff trained to a high level in this field of expertise is essential.
Just like a surgeon in an operating theatre a patient’s life is literally in your hands, if your records are not accurate, legible, filed and stored correctly a poorly person could potentially die!
