What does the medicines act 1968 say about administering medication?

The Medicines Act 1968 protects patients from unscrupulous suppliers of medicines. Safeguarding public safety from the illegal sale or supply of medicines or any inaccurate and misleading labelling is very important.

The Medicines Act allows a pharmaceutical mistake to be treated as a criminal offence. Parliament has decided that it should be so to protect the public. This is a law in how medicine has to be administrated, because the correct dosage, label and type of medicine has to be given to the public or they are breaking the law.

There are different sections within this at in which gives guidelines and rules in which tell you how to administer medicines. There is a Protection of purchasers of medicinal products which is under section 64, this is making sure that the nobody sells medicine that is not up to the correct standard and quality that is demanded by the purchaser or specified in the prescription. This makes sure that people are being sold what they ask for and need. There is another section, 85, which is labelling and marking of containers and packages. This is making sure that businesses sells and supplies a medical product or is in the possession of correct labeled medicines. If any of there medicines in which:

· Falsely describes the product, or

· Likely to mislead the purchaser or another as to the nature or quality of the product or as to the uses or effects of medicinal products of that description, then they will be breaking the law.

This protects the public because people have to administer the correct labeled medicine and people have to know what they are taking and being given.