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Morphine patches - medication/therapy?
I presume that if someone required their morphine patches putting on this would still come under assistance with medication rather than therapy?
By my reading of Part One of Schedule One of the PIP Regs I’d say it’s medication so yes comes under assistance with medication not therapy:
“therapy” means therapy to be undertaken at home which is prescribed or recommended by a—
(a)registered –
(i)doctor;
(ii)nurse; or
(iii)pharmacist; or(b)health professional regulated by the Health Professions Council;
but does not include taking or applying, or otherwise receiving or administering, medication (whether orally, topically or by any other means), or any action which, in C’s case, falls within the definition of “monitor a health condition.
(Emphasis mine)
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/377/schedule/1/part/1