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 (3087 downloads)
- Good Practice Guidance Weekly Medication Audit Checklist (1336 downloads)
Controlled drugs
- Care Homes Letter August 2022 (469 downloads)
- CD Bulletin - Issue 24 - November 2022 (15 downloads)
- CD Bulletin Issue 22 - April 22 (231 downloads)
- Common Controlled Drugs and Legal Requirements for Care Homes (473 downloads)
- Guidelines on the management of controlled drugs (CD) in care homes (3176 downloads)
- Management of CD in Care Homes (12 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 (1462 downloads)
- Good Practice - Covert Medication Review form (923 downloads)
- Permission to Administer Medication in Food to Facilitate Swallowing (2073 downloads)
Disposal and waste medicines
- Good Practice - Medication Disposal Sheet (771 downloads)
- Good Practice -Medicines-Waste-Top-Tips-for-Care-homes-Poster (634 downloads)
Homely remedies & self-care (OTC medicines)
- Homely medicines Stock Sheet (0 downloads)
- Homely Remedies and Self- Care Products (0 downloads)
- Homely Remedies Competency Assessment (2473 downloads)
- Recommendation for Self-Care Product (14 downloads)
MAR chart and associated documents
- Emollient Record Chart (1334 downloads)
- Good Practice - Aqueous Cream Wash Chart (841 downloads)
- Good Practice - Insulin Injection Admin Record (632 downloads)
- Good Practice - MAR front cover (1441 downloads)
- Good Practice - Person In Charge Of Medication (1097 downloads)
- Good Practice - Sorbaderm Application Record (692 downloads)
- Good Practice - Specimen Signature Sheet (803 downloads)
- Good Practice - Thickener Administration Chart (481 downloads)
- Good Practice - Transdermal Patch Application Record (1853 downloads)
- Good Practice - Warfarin Administration Chart (1115 downloads)
- Good Practice - Wash and Emollient Record (750 downloads)
- Good Practice -Daily Transdermal Patch Application Record (1139 downloads)
- Nutritional Supplement Administration Chart (1842 downloads)
- Topical Application Record (2008 downloads)
Medicine orders, receipt and reconciliation
- Good Practice - Interim Medication Tracker (1046 downloads)
- Good Practice - Medication Reconciliation Tracker (419 downloads)
- Good Practice - Monthly Medication Orders and Receipt Tracker Sheet (625 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 Medication Review Letter (0 downloads)
- Good Practice - Clinical Visit (491 downloads)
- Good Practice Clinical Consultation Prescribing Checklist (361 downloads)
- When Required or Variable Dose Medication (279 downloads)
Prescribing guidance/ resources
- Good Practice Guidance for Care Homes - Think Kidneys (468 downloads)
- I-Hydrate: Resources to Support the Hydration of Care Home Residents (UWL) (1749 downloads)
- NCIC Community Wound Management Formulary_Booklet (1552 downloads)
- Scottish UTI Network Urine Colour Chart (1138 downloads)
- STOMP STAMP key messages (855 downloads)
- Useful prescribing information - a guide for prescribers (7099 downloads)
Self-administration
Specialist / Critical Medicines
- Good Practice - Blood Sugar Tracker Chart (802 downloads)
- Good Practice - Warfarin Administration Chart (1115 downloads)
Storage of medicines
- Good Practice Refrigerator Temperature Monitoring Chart (763 downloads)
- Good Practice - Medication Expiry Date (824 downloads)
- Medication temperature record chart (570 downloads)
- Room temperature record chart (441 downloads)
Transfer of medicines out of care home
- Good Practice - Holiday or Day Leave Medication Tracker (530 downloads)
- Good Practice - Medication Leaving Care Home Tracker Sheet (477 downloads)
When required (PRN) medicines
- PRN and Variable Dose Medications (2444 downloads)
- When-Required-and-Variable-Dose-Medications (3 downloads)
Competency
Covid 19 / Vitamin D
Good Practice Guidance for Care Homes Advice to Administer Vitamin D Supplement
Medicine errors