Patients in emergency departments should be supported to self-administer time-critical medicines, says royal college

Advice produced with the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association urges that emergency departments should hold self-administered time-critical medicines to the same monitoring and governance oversight standards as non self-administered medicines.
A doctor and nurse consult a woman in a hospital
The advisory statement lists four principles that should be followed to allow safe self-administration of time-critical medicines, which include patient assessments by emergency department staff

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Patients in hospital emergency departments (EDs) who are able to self-administer time-critical medicines (TCMs) should be supported to do so, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has said.

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