This is also exactly why there are prominent warnings on every treatment room wall at work and more warnings in the training material.
Most senior patients are on various mixtures of benzos and opiates.
Paradoxically because nearly all the patients are at end of life but as the same time there is considerable ideological and religious objection within middle England to any form of euthanasia (many people genuinely think it is a “European conspiracy”) every aspect of legit treatment with Class B or A drugs has to be laboriously noted on both a computer system and hand written documents, including a stock book which looks like (and TBH is) something out of the 1950s.
The new ones are slightly smaller (as the contents are often scanned into the electronic systems) but are still hard bound books which are of an unusual non metric size, and the CID (detective branch of the Police) can request copies or scans whenever they wish. Prescriptions for class A/B are still transmitted using analogue fax machines.
There is some sense in it as handwriting is much harder to forge and holds people accountable – if I look at a scanned document when checking backups I can often work out the gender, age and nationality of the nurse involved without referring to their names. However this zero trust environment does eat into the time and resources available to actually treat the patients which is not a good thing.
