Pupil Protect Health
Every dose, bump and accident, written down properly.
Health records the medicines you give, first aid and accidents for pupils, staff and visitors, and tells parents what happened the same day. Anything that worries a first aider goes straight to your safeguarding team.
For first aiders, the school office and your designated safeguarding lead (DSL). Included in every Pupil Protect plan.
Medical conditions and healthcare plans are part of Safeguard. Health adds what happens in the medical room.
Medicines, with every dose recorded
Each pupil’s medicines are listed with the parent’s consent, the dose and when it’s due. When a dose is given, record what, when and who gave it, and it joins the pupil’s medication record.
- Consent before the first doseParents agree to each medicine. Nothing can be recorded as given without it.
- Stock and expiry datesSee how much is left, and get a reminder four weeks before anything expires, including emergency inhalers and adrenaline pens.
- Ready for tripsPrint one list of everyone on the trip with their conditions and the medicines to take.
Asthma is on Amira’s record in Safeguard, with her healthcare plan.
First aid and accidents, for everyone on site
Record first aid on a tablet in the medical room or on a phone on the field. Accidents to pupils, staff and visitors, and near misses, are kept in one place.
- Where it happened, and what was doneMark injuries on a body map with numbered markers. Children’s injuries are never photographed.
- Witnesses and follow-upAdd witness statements, what caused it and what will change, so the same accident doesn’t happen twice.
- RIDDOR flagged for youWhen an accident may need reporting to the Health and Safety Executive, Health says so and keeps a note of when it was reported.
This may be reportable under RIDDOR because the person was taken to hospital. Record the date it was reported.
Parents told the same day
After a head injury or anything you choose, parents get a message saying what happened, what was done and what to look out for tonight. You can see that it was sent.
- Your wording, set onceWrite the messages for each kind of injury, with advice on what to watch for.
- Only what parents needThe message is about their own child. Other children involved are never named.
- How it reaches them[Email, text or app, and whether you can see when it was read]
When an injury is a safeguarding worry
Most first aid is just first aid. Health makes sure the rest isn’t missed.
- Patterns are noticedA child who keeps coming to the medical room, or has injuries in unusual places, is pointed out to the first aider and the DSL.
- A concern in one stepIf a first aider is worried, they raise a concern from the visit. It goes to the DSL team, linked to the first aid record.
- The DSL sees it in contextMedical room visits can be shown on the child’s chronology in Safeguard, next to everything else.
Works with the rest of Pupil Protect
Health is included in every plan, alongside Safeguard. It shares one sign-in and the same pupil and staff records, so conditions, plans and training are already there.
See it with your own medical room in mind.
A 30-minute demo shaped around how your first aiders record medicines and accidents today.