Health Services: Healthcare Assistants
(asked on 22nd February 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's policy is on the administration of medication without supervision by health care assistants.
This question was answered on 27th February 2017
The administration of medication by healthcare assistants and the supervision thereof are a matter for local National Health Service determination, within the strictures of Care Quality Commission regulation and subject to the duties of registered professionals within each healthcare assistant’s team to ensure safe delegation.