Social work and social care
• Social workers and social
care workers have firsthand knowledge of
medication safety at
home.
• Some social workers
identified that their roles
and responsibilities for
supporting medication
safety are not always
clear
"I just feel it doesn't sit well with me as
a social worker because I'm not
medically trained, and my awareness
of what medications are for or dosages
etc…it's not up to us to be saying what
its [medication] is for and what's not…I
feel it's a very precarious area at the
minute, especially from my
background as a social worker…none of
us feel comfortable in doing it, it just
leaves room for errors to be made"