Medicine/accident book? (me again)

[BlondeMoment]

Me again....sorry I'm full of questions at the moment

I've been buying the NCMA accident/incident folder. It's bulky, expensive and isn't working well for me.
Do any of you have another way of recording accidents and medicines etc?
Could I simply just write each accident or each time someone has medicine in one book?
What do you all do?

[sarah707]

I have individual sheets which are filed in each child's personal folder once completed, signed and photocopied for parents

[AliceK]

I have individual sheets which are filed in each child's personal folder once completed, signed and photocopied for parents

I do this too. I use MM ones. I have an accident / incident sheet. Then also a medication sheet. Once myself and parent has signed the sheet it's filed in the childs folder.

xxx

[rickysmiths]

No sorry I have always used the NCMA Folder and love it.

[JCrakers]

I do all my own paperwork because I didn't want to pay for something I could quite easily do myself.

I have a sheet of paper a4sized that I split in two. 1 copy for me, 1 for parent.
I have an incident /accident one, medication to take one, medication given. One for an injury that child has before coming to mine.

[Mollymop]

I have individual sheets which are filed in each child's personal folder once completed, signed and photocopied for parents

I do this when I run out of NCMA accident forms and awaiting delivery!

[sarah707]

Don't forget guys - in the wording of the revised EYFS it's accident and injury NOT incident

[bunyip]

I use the NCMA forms.

OTOH, our local preschool uses a simple duplicate book with a sheet of carbon paper (not unlike a receipt pad.)

Ofsted were quite happy with both. Surely it's not the format that counts, it's the information you put in, together with how it is shared, used and stored.

[miffy]

Don't forget guys - in the wording of the revised EYFS it's accident and injury NOT incident

Thanks for that Sarah - another little amendment to make!

Miffy xx

[mumof4]

I use the ncma ones but find them a pain to keep in the folder so im transferring them to a home-made one. I think because im insured with ncma i need to use theirs or i would make my own

[BlondeMoment]

I use the ncma ones but find them a pain to keep in the folder so im transferring them to a home-made one. I think because im insured with ncma i need to use theirs or i would make my own

I'm pretty sure the only thing you have to use through NCMA if you're insured through them is the contracts.
I'm insured through NCMA too and I don't use all of their stuff. Just a few bits. I'm slowly starting to replace it all with my own as it's so expensive