Useful resources from other organisations
General
Person-centred care
- NHS Constitution
- Department of Health advice on consent
- Mental Capacity Act 2005: Code of Practice (2007)
- Think Local Act Personal
Essential standards in care homes
- Care Quality Commission essential standards of quality and safety
- Department of Education Children’s homes: National minimum standards
- Disclosure and Barring Service
Developing and reviewing policies for safe and effective use of medicines
Supporting residents to make informed decisions and recording these decisions
- Department of Health: Independence, choice and risk
- Social Care Institute for Excellence: Prevention of maladministration of medication checklist
- Ofqual: Ascentis Level 3 Award in the Awareness of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (QCF)
Sharing information about a resident’s medicines
- Health and Social Care Information Centre: A guide to confidentiality in health and social care
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society: Keeping patients safe when they transfer between care providers – getting the medicines right
- Care Quality Commission: Managing patients’ medicines after discharge
Ensuring that records are accurate and up to date
- Nursing and Midwifery Council: Record keeping: guidance for nurses and midwives
- Department of Health: Records management: NHS code of practice (2006)
Identifying, reviewing and reporting medicines-related problems
- The Francis Report: (Report of the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry)
- The Berwick Report: A promise to learn – a commitment to act: improving the safety of patients in England
- Nursing and Midwifery Council: Standards for medicines management (2010)
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority: Yellow card scheme
Keeping residents safe (safeguarding)
- Department for Education: Working together to safeguard children (2013)
- Department for Education: What to do if you're worried a child is being abused (2006)
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society: Care homes policy documents for England, Scotland and Wales
- National Patient Safety Agency: Seven steps to patient safety
Accurately listing a resident’s medicines (medicines reconciliation)
- National Prescribing Centre: Medicines reconciliation a guide to implementation (2008)
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Medicines optimisation: the safe and effective use of medicines to enable the best possible outcomes (2015)
Reviewing medicines (medication review)
- National Prescribing Centre: A guide to medication review (2008)
- National Prescribing Centre: Room for review (2002)
- Lewis, T (2004) Using the NO TEARS tool for medication review. BMJ 329: 434
- O’Mahony, D et al (2010) STOPP & START criteria: A new approach to detecting potentially inappropriate prescribing in old age. European Geriatric Medicine 1: 45–51
Prescribing medicines
Dispensing and supplying medicines
Receiving, storing and disposing of medicines
Care home staff administering medicines to residents
- British National Formulary
- British National Formulary for Children
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Evidence portal
- NHS
- Patient
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Clinical Knowledge Summaries
- Electronic Medicines Compendium
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