Clause 16 - Accountable officers and their responsibilities as to controlled drugs
Health Bill
2:15 pm
Jane Kennedy (Minister of State, Department of Health; Liverpool, Wavertree, Labour)
The accountable officer will supervise the management of controlled drugs in the trust. There will be a requirement to share the data—that will be done on an anonymised basis so that patients’ details are not shared—with organisations such as the police. If practices of a criminal nature came to light, I anticipate that they would be dealt with by the appropriate authority. If it became clear as a result of monitoring the controlled drugs that there was, for example, a lack of training or a lack of understanding about protocols, one would expect that to be dealt with differently by the professional bodies responsible for the development of such protocols. I hope that that assures the right hon. Gentleman.