Provide comprehensive and arrangements for The armed forces are given the monitoring and inspecting status of a designated body and discrete provision for Northern Establish a mechanism to support Ireland Ambulance Services ‘NIAS’ collaboration and information has been omitted. sharing The conditions for appointing an Underpinning these improvements Accountable Officer have been was the determination that they amended to provide more flexibility would not compromise clinical care for smaller organisations while and patients’ access to this care. ensuring that the Accountable Officer has sufficient seniority to have credibility within their The Controlled (Supervision organisation of Management and Use) (Amendment) Regulations The list of Standard Operating (Northern Ireland) 2015 amend Procedures which ‘SOPs’ the Controlled Drugs designated bodies shall have has been extended to include a (Supervision of Management and requirement for SOPs covering the Use) Regulations (Northern prescribing, supply and Ireland) 2009, the ‘principal’ administration of controlled drugs Regulations. and the clinical monitoring of patients prescribed controlled amendments have been made to drugs make provision for additional safeguards for the safe management and use of The definition of a relevant person Controlled Drugs introduced in England has been extended and now and Scotland when the Controlled Drugs includes all health care (Supervision of Management and Use) professionals and is not limited to Regulations 2013 which came into force health care professionals providing on 1 April 2013. medical, dental, pharmaceutical The opportunity has also been to and nursing or midwifery services align certain arrangements with those in to private patients England, Scotland and Wales. A summary of the key amendments is A provision has been made for outlined below: occurrence reports to be submitted more frequently than quarterly The definition of relevant there are concerns that warrant it independent hospitals has been and a request has been made by inserted to take account of those the accountable officer of the independent hospitals which are Regional Board not providing healthcare, have no controlled drug activity, and where Protection from civil proceedings a determination would create has been extended to include all disproportionate difficulties for the Regulations. independent hospital in question. These independent hospitals will Accountable Officers not be caught by the Regulations
Provide comprehensive and arrangements for monitoring and inspecting Establish a mechanism to support collaboration and information sharing Underpinning these improvements was the determination that they would not compromise clinical care and patients’ access to this care. The Controlled (Supervision of Management and Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 amend the Controlled Drugs (Supervision of Management and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009, the ‘principal’ Regulations. amendments have been made to make provision for additional safeguards for the safe management and use of Controlled Drugs introduced in England and Scotland when the Controlled Drugs (Supervision of Management and Use) Regulations 2013 which came into force on 1 April 2013. The opportunity has also been to align certain arrangements with those in England, Scotland and Wales. A summary of the key amendments is outlined below: The definition of relevant independent hospitals has been inserted to take account of those independent hospitals which are not providing healthcare, have no controlled drug activity, and where a determination would create disproportionate difficulties for the independent hospital in question. These independent hospitals will not be caught by the Regulations The armed forces are given the status of a designated body and discrete provision for Northern Ireland Ambulance Services ‘NIAS’ has been omitted. The conditions for appointing an Accountable Officer have been amended to provide more flexibility for smaller organisations while ensuring that the Accountable Officer has sufficient seniority to have credibility within their organisation The list of Standard Operating Procedures ‘SOPs’ which designated bodies shall have has been extended to include a requirement for SOPs covering the prescribing, supply and administration of controlled drugs and the clinical monitoring of patients prescribed controlled drugs The definition of a relevant person has been extended and now includes all health care professionals and is not limited to health care professionals providing medical, dental, pharmaceutical and nursing or midwifery services to private patients A provision has been made for occurrence reports to be submitted more frequently than quarterly there are concerns that warrant it and a request has been made by the accountable officer of the Regional Board Protection from civil proceedings has been extended to include all Regulations. Accountable Officers
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