NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-26.3 Medication: safe, secure, identifiable storage with trained access only
Clause and reference core-26.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
All medication is stored safely and securely, is easy to identify and tell apart, and is accessed only by appropriately trained workers.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Locked storage and key or access control records
- Storage temperature logs where required
- Labelled blister packs or containers per participant
- Access lists limited to trained workers
What assessors commonly find
- Medications from different participants stored together unlabelled
- Untrained staff with access to medication
What evidence do I need?
For core-26.3 Medication: safe, secure, identifiable storage with trained access only, the evidence to bring is: Locked storage and key or access control records; Storage temperature logs where required. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-26.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me locked storage and key or access control records, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.
Read your own evidence against this clause
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading