Medicines Management

Every drug, every bag, accounted for.

From the formulary to the moment of administration, AmbuNet keeps an unbroken custody chain — who has which bag, what was given, who witnessed it and what stock remains. When governance asks the hard question, the answer is already recorded.

Drug bag — paramedic bag 3 SEALED
07:12 Checked out — J. Carter On shift
10:48 Morphine 5mg IV administered WITNESSED
10:49 Stock remaining updated ✓
— Salbutamol batch expires in 14 days Expiring
Why this matters

Paper registers fail quietly. Then loudly.

Medicines management is where good services pick up bad findings — not because anyone cut corners, but because paper and spreadsheets can't keep up with stock that moves.

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No live view of what's in each bag

Without a system, knowing what's actually in vehicle 4's response bag means walking to vehicle 4. Multiply that by every bag, store and base, every shift.

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Paper CD books don't survive inspection

Crossed-out balances, missing witnesses, a register at the base while the drugs are on the road. Inspectors notice — and so do you, the night before they arrive.

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Expired stock found too late

An expired ampoule discovered during a job is a clinical risk and a finding in one. Monthly manual trawls catch it eventually; dashboards catch it first.

From store to patient

One unbroken chain, five stops.

Every medicine AmbuNet tracks follows the same journey — and every hop is recorded against a person, a place and a time.

Central store

Stock arrives and is logged with batch, expiry and supplier reference — traceable from day one.

Base store

Stores mirror your estate, with capability-level alarms that flag when a store runs below its minimums.

Vehicle

Bags move to vehicles and show up alongside vehicle checks — sealed, tagged and accounted for.

Drug bag

A bag is always in someone's custody. Check-out, handover and seal removal are all timestamped.

Clinician & patient

Administration is recorded on the ePCR — batch, dose, route, witness — and stock updates in the same motion.

Formulary & stores

Structure first: know what you hold and where.

Everything starts with a proper formulary — then stores and drug bags that reflect how your organisation actually carries medicines.

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A formulary with the detail that matters

Each medicine carries its constitution, presentation, legal basis and alarm levels — so the system knows not just what you stock, but under what authority it's given and when stock levels should raise a flag.

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Drug bags with capability levels

Stores and drug bags are built around clinical capability levels, so a bag matches what its holder is qualified to give. Custom per-level alarms mean a paramedic bag and a technician bag each warn on the thresholds that are right for them.

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Stores that mirror your estate

Model your central store, base stores and vehicle stock as they exist in the real world, and move stock between them with a full movement history behind every item.

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A proper quarantine for expired stock

A dedicated out-of-date quarantine store type holds expired stock awaiting disposal — and it's excluded from your expiry KPIs, so drugs you've already quarantined don't keep dragging your dashboards down.

Custody chain

The whole chain, from the crew's phone.

Custody doesn't break when the shift starts. Crews run the entire chain from the AmbuNet mobile app — no paper log at the station door, no catching up on the register at end of shift.

  • Check out, check in — a bag is always in someone's custody, with the handover timestamped against the person who took it.
  • Tap the bag, open the bag — an AmbuTag on a drug bag or cupboard opens its record the moment a phone touches it; QR labels work everywhere too.
  • Move to vehicle — bags follow the resource, so stock on a vehicle is visible alongside its checks in Fleet & Equipment.
  • Seal-removal reporting — a broken seal is reported from the phone the moment it happens, not remembered later.
  • Scan-verified seals — seals with a QR or data-matrix code are scanned, not read by eye: the scan checks the number against the record and marks the check verified by scan.
  • Bag audits — contents audited against expected stock, from the same screen the bag lives on. A mismatched count raises a tracked discrepancy that must be investigated and resolved.
Custody — response bag 1 IN CUSTODY
06:58 Checked out — A. Osei ✓
07:04 Moved to vehicle A2 ✓
12:16 Seal removal reported Logged
19:03 Bag audit completed Passed
Administration & controlled drugs

Administration recorded properly, first time.

Every administration captures batch, dose, route and stock remaining — recorded on the ePCR and reflected in stock in one motion. Controlled drugs get the extra rigour they demand.

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Mandatory CD witnessing

Controlled-drug administrations require a witness — the system won't record one without it. Patient identifiers on administration records sit behind MFA step-up, so even privileged users can't browse them casually.

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A CD register with running balances

Every controlled drug carries a live register per bag and store — received, moved, administered, destroyed — with a running balance that always reconciles against physical stock. Per-employee CD audits check expected against counted, witnessed. Explore the CD register →

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Correct — when the record is wrong

Use a Correct when the drug was given but a detail was recorded wrongly. Stock is untouched, the original entry is preserved and flagged, and the corrected version sits alongside it — an honest amendment, never a silent edit.

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Void — when nothing was given

Use a Void when the administration never happened. Stock is returned to the bag, and voiding a controlled drug requires a witness of its own — because undoing a CD entry deserves the same rigour as making one.

The CD register

A running balance that always reconciles.

Every controlled drug keeps a live register per bag and store — every receipt, move, administration and destruction in one ledger, with the balance recomputed against physical stock rather than trusted to arithmetic.

  • Running balances — the register walks back from live stock, so the latest balance is always provably correct.
  • Inspection-ready export — one PDF per drug, per location, laid out like the paper register inspectors know.
  • Honest amendments — corrections and voids appear in the ledger with the original preserved, never silently edited.

Explore the Controlled Drug Register →

CD register — morphine 10mg/1ml · bag 3 BAL 9
+10 Received from pharmacy BAL 10
−1 Administered — ePCR linked WITNESSED
0 Stock check — 9 counted, 9 expected ✓
— Register exported for inspection PDF
Expiry management

Staying in date, without the monthly trawl.

Expiry management is where paper systems quietly fail. AmbuNet makes the whole job a dashboard and a couple of clicks — and keeps the audit trail intact throughout.

  • Batch operations — move, discard or remove expired stock in bulk, with select-all-expired shortcuts that turn a shelf-by-shelf trawl into one action.
  • Expiry dashboards — see what's expiring across every store and bag before it becomes a finding, feeding the medicines KPIs in Governance & CQC.
  • Incident-linked stock removal — destroying a drug as part of an incident writes the stock movement automatically, so the register and the incident record can never drift apart.
Expiry dashboard 3 EXPIRING
14d Salbutamol — base store Expiring
0d Glucagon — response bag 2 Expired
— 6 items moved to quarantine ✓
— Incident-linked removal logged Auto

Give your medicines lead their evenings back.

Medicines Management is included in every AmbuNet tier, on web and mobile. Set up your formulary, build your bags and run the custody chain from day one.