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Nurses and health and social care staff often manage medicines on behalf of those people who use their services. It is a requirement of care providers to promote the safe and effective use of medicines. If healthcare organisations fail to do this, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) (2018) suggest that this poses real risks to people who may be vulnerable, including:

 older people;

 people with reduced mental capacity, reduced mobility or a sensory impairment;

 people who rely on help to take their medicines.

Medicine management standards provide nurses with a framework for safe practice. All nurses must read and comply with these standards, and undergraduate students must also be familiar with them. The requirements laid out in the various standards consider issues essential for the safe management of all medications and also include controlled drugs.