The NECS Vulnerable Adults Workstream Group has produced a suite of guidance documents and tools for use across all stakeholder CCGs, based national standards, legislation and guidance. Click on the links below to access these documents.
Audit
- Daily Medicine Administration Record (MAR) Checklist (7657 downloads)
- Good Practice Guidance Weekly Medication Audit Checklist (6754 downloads)
Controlled drugs
- Care Homes Letter August 2022 (4532 downloads)
- CD Bulletin – Issue 24 – November 2022 (3633 downloads)
- CD Bulletin – Issue 25 – March 2023 (2293 downloads)
- CD Bulletin Issue 22 – April 22 (3248 downloads)
- Common Controlled Drugs and Legal Requirements for Care Homes (6090 downloads)
- Management of CD in Care Homes (5986 downloads)
Covert administration & swallowing difficulties
NICE provides a useful Quick Guide to giving medicines covertly. More detailed guidance is available from the CQC and from PrescQIPP [log-in required to access some resources].
The templates below may be useful for recording and reviewing decisions:
- Good Practice – Covert Medication Care form (5894 downloads)
- Good Practice – Covert Medication Review form (5032 downloads)
- Permission to Administer Medication in Food to Facilitate Swallowing (6622 downloads)
Disposal and waste medicines
- Good Practice – Medication Disposal Sheet (4349 downloads)
- Good Practice -Medicines-Waste-Top-Tips-for-Care-homes-Poster (4831 downloads)
Homely remedies & self-care (OTC medicines)
- Homely medicines Stock Sheet (3508 downloads)
- Homely Remedies and Self-Care Products (3971 downloads)
- Homely Remedies Competency Assessment (5947 downloads)
- Recommendation for Self-Care Product (3898 downloads)
MAR chart and associated documents
- Emollient Record Chart (5543 downloads)
- Good Practice – Aqueous Cream Wash Chart (4728 downloads)
- Good Practice – Insulin Injection Admin Record (4834 downloads)
- Good Practice – MAR front cover (4988 downloads)
- Good Practice – Person In Charge Of Medication (6109 downloads)
- Good Practice – Sorbaderm Application Record (4171 downloads)
- Good Practice – Specimen Signature Sheet (4820 downloads)
- Good Practice – Thickener Administration Chart (4706 downloads)
- Good Practice – Transdermal Patch Application Record (5957 downloads)
- Good Practice – Warfarin Administration Chart (6412 downloads)
- Good Practice – Wash and Emollient Record (4776 downloads)
- Good Practice -Daily Transdermal Patch Application Record (5093 downloads)
- Nutritional Supplement Administration Chart (5343 downloads)
- Topical Application Record (5620 downloads)
Medicine orders, receipt and reconciliation
- Good Practice – Interim Medication Tracker (4911 downloads)
- Good Practice – Medication Reconciliation Tracker (4269 downloads)
- Good Practice – Monthly Medication Orders and Receipt Tracker Sheet (5210 downloads)
Proxy online ordering of medicines in care homes
For information about online ordering medication for care homes using proxy access – including national guidance and a collection of downloadable resources – please refer to the Proxy Ordering page on the NHS England website.
Medicine review
- Care Home Medication Review Letter (3263 downloads)
- Clinical Medication Review: A Practice Guide (4969 downloads)
- Good Practice – Clinical Visit (3847 downloads)
- Good Practice Clinical Consultation Prescribing Checklist (4627 downloads)
Prescribing guidance/ resources
- Good Practice Guidance for Care Homes – Think Kidneys (5651 downloads)
- I-Hydrate: Resources to Support the Hydration of Care Home Residents (UWL) (6187 downloads)
- NCIC Community Wound Management Formulary_Booklet (8494 downloads)
- Scottish UTI Network Urine Colour Chart (5369 downloads)
- STOMP STAMP key messages (7023 downloads)
- Useful prescribing information – a guide for prescribers (13848 downloads)
Self-administration
Specialist / Critical Medicines
- Good Practice – Blood Sugar Tracker Chart (4538 downloads)
- Good Practice – Warfarin Administration Chart (6412 downloads)
Storage of medicines
- Good Practice Refrigerator Temperature Monitoring Chart (4629 downloads)
- Good Practice – Medication Expiry Date (4914 downloads)
- Medication temperature record chart (4433 downloads)
- Room temperature record chart (4249 downloads)
Transfer of medicines out of care home
- Good Practice – Holiday or Day Leave Medication Tracker (4416 downloads)
- Good Practice – Medication Leaving Care Home Tracker Sheet (4787 downloads)
When required (PRN) medicines
- When Required and Variable Dose Medications – Guidance Notes (5218 downloads)
- When Required or Variable Dose Medication – Form for Patient Records (4862 downloads)