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 (1619 downloads)
- Weekly Medication Audit Checklist (2824 downloads)
Controlled drugs
- Common Controlled Drugs and Legal Requirements for Care Homes (1428 downloads)
- Guidelines on the management of controlled drugs (CD) in care homes (1776 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 (566 downloads)
- Good Practice - Covert Medication Review form (314 downloads)
- Permission to Administer Medication in Food to Facilitate Swallowing (318 downloads)
Disposal and waste medicines
- Good Practice - Medication Disposal Sheet (209 downloads)
- Good Practice -Medicines-Waste-Top-Tips-for-Care-homes-Poster (156 downloads)
Homely remedies & self-care (OTC medicines)
- Homely Remedies and Self - Care Products (654 downloads)
- Homely Remedies Competency Assessment (1059 downloads)
- Homely Remedies Stock Sheet (628 downloads)
- Recommendation for Self Care Product (596 downloads)
MAR chart and associated documents
- Emollient Record Chart (619 downloads)
- Good Practice - Aqueous Cream Wash Chart (388 downloads)
- Good Practice - Insulin Injection Admin Record (142 downloads)
- Good Practice - MAR front cover (693 downloads)
- Good Practice - Person In Charge Of Medication (564 downloads)
- Good Practice - Sorbaderm Application Record (348 downloads)
- Good Practice - Specimen Signature Sheet (398 downloads)
- Good Practice - Thickener Administration Chart (454 downloads)
- Good Practice - Transdermal Patch Application Record (933 downloads)
- Good Practice - Warfarin Administration Chart (536 downloads)
- Good Practice - Wash and Emollient Record (370 downloads)
- Good Practice -Daily Transdermal Patch Application Record (459 downloads)
- Nutritional Supplement Administration Chart (483 downloads)
- Topical Application Record (1064 downloads)
Medicine orders, receipt and reconciliation
- Good Practice - Interim Medication Tracker (502 downloads)
- Good Practice - Monthly Medication Orders and Receipt Tracker Sheet (91 downloads)
- Medication Reconciliation Tracker (1348 downloads)
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 medicine review letter (525 downloads)
- Good Practice - Clinical Visit (152 downloads)
- Good Practice Clinical Consultation Prescribing Checklist (94 downloads)
Prescribing guidance/ resources
- Final wound management formulary booklet (125 downloads)
- Good Practice Guidance for Care Homes - Think Kidneys (169 downloads)
- I-Hydrate: Resources to Support the Hydration of Care Home Residents (UWL) (935 downloads)
- Scottish UTI Network Urine Colour Chart (635 downloads)
- STOMP STAMP key messages (199 downloads)
- Useful prescribing information - a guide for prescribers (4025 downloads)
Self-administration
Specialist / Critical Medicines
- Good Practice - Blood Sugar Tracker Chart (354 downloads)
- Good Practice - Warfarin Administration Chart (536 downloads)
Storage of medicines
- Good Practice Refrigerator Temperature Monitoring Chart (181 downloads)
- Good Practice - Medication Expiry Date (190 downloads)
- Medication temperature record chart (21 downloads)
- Room Temperature Record Chart (705 downloads)
Transfer of medicines out of care home
- Good Practice - Holiday or Day Leave Medication Tracker (105 downloads)
- Good Practice - Medication Leaving Care Home Tracker Sheet (107 downloads)
When required (PRN) medicines
- PRN and Variable Dose Medications (551 downloads)
- When Required or Variable Dose Protocol (1183 downloads)
Competency
Covid 19 / Vitamin D
Good Practice Guidance for Care Homes Advice to Administer Vitamin D Supplement
Medicine errors