Individual Learning Session: Managing Medication - Medicines in the UK

At the end of this session you will:

• have explored the definition of a medicine and the term 'drug'
• have considered how the pharmaceutical industry undertake clinical trials with medicines
• have an understanding of Homeopathy and how complementary medicines are registered
• have knowledge of how medicines have a generic name and a brand/proprietary name
• have an understanding of the importance of checking labels thoroughly before administering medicine/tablets
• have knowledge of the three different classifications of medicines in the UK
• have looked at how medication should be recorded on a MAR sheet and what information is recorded
• have considered the legal requirement for particular information to appear on the dispensing label