Petition Enable care homes to use medication prescribed to people who have died

The Government should pass an emergency regulation that would allow care homes to use drugs like morphine that have been prescribed to people who have since passed away. It is a waste for drugs, which may be sorely needed, to be unable to be used for those in desperate need of them.

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With many people in great suffering and in need of medications, such as morphine, it is a tragedy on so many levels that care homes may have stocks of much needed drugs they cannot use because they were prescribed to people now dead. In such a crisis as the present one allowing care homes to use these otherwise wasted drugs should do something to lighten the immense burden of care home staff.

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Date closed 29 December 2020
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