Medication & Medical Needs
Day-to-day our Health Promotions Team monitors the health of all young people. Please contact her if you would like to discuss any aspect of your child’s medical needs. If you would like your child to be registered with the local GP surgery, please provide the staff with their medical card to help us to register them. Staff have basic first aid training. If your child does become poorly whilst at school, we will notify the Health Promotions Manager, who will make appointments with local health professionals if required. During the evenings and weekends, we will contact NHS Direct. If necessary we will arrange for them to be seen by the local GP. We will always contact you in the event of your child becoming ill or having an accident. If your child becomes ill, has changes to their medication or there is a medical discrepancy at home, please ensure that you notify the care team. If your child is on long term medication, this is monitored by the care staff. Records are kept of any prescribed and non-prescribed medication. It is important that all prescribed drugs are clearly marked in their original container, labelled with the young person’s name, dosage and time to be given. We are unable to accpet medication that does not include this information. All medication should be handed to a member of staff by an adult. Staff will sign to confirm receipt. Please do not send medication in your childs luggage or give it to them to bring to us. Only competant, medically trained staff are permitted to administer medication. Please keep us informed of any changes. A medical change letter from the prescriber will be required before we can amend doses of medication.
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