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
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A dedicated out-of-date quarantine store type holds expired stock awaiting disposal — and it's excluded from your expiry KPIs, so drugs you've already quarantined don't keep dragging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.
  • 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.
  • Bag audits — contents audited against expected stock, from the same screen the bag lives on.
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 that audits itself

The controlled-drugs register supports per-employee CD audits and CD PINs, so reconciling an individual's CD activity is a report, not an afternoon with a paper book.

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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.

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 of your trial.