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 (4898 downloads)
- Good Practice Guidance Weekly Medication Audit Checklist (3134 downloads)
Controlled drugs
- Care Homes Letter August 2022 (2006 downloads)
- CD Bulletin - Issue 24 - November 2022 (1433 downloads)
- CD Bulletin - Issue 25 - March 2023 (204 downloads)
- CD Bulletin Issue 22 - April 22 (1493 downloads)
- Common Controlled Drugs and Legal Requirements for Care Homes (2079 downloads)
- Guidelines on the management of controlled drugs (CD) in care homes (4894 downloads)
- Management of CD in Care Homes (1440 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 (3053 downloads)
- Good Practice - Covert Medication Review form (2471 downloads)
- Permission to Administer Medication in Food to Facilitate Swallowing (3751 downloads)
Disposal and waste medicines
- Good Practice - Medication Disposal Sheet (2144 downloads)
- Good Practice -Medicines-Waste-Top-Tips-for-Care-homes-Poster (2205 downloads)
Homely remedies & self-care (OTC medicines)
- Homely medicines Stock Sheet (1398 downloads)
- Homely Remedies and Self- Care Products (1354 downloads)
- Homely Remedies Competency Assessment (3838 downloads)
- Recommendation for Self-Care Product (1451 downloads)
MAR chart and associated documents
- Emollient Record Chart (2951 downloads)
- Good Practice - Aqueous Cream Wash Chart (2255 downloads)
- Good Practice - Insulin Injection Admin Record (2099 downloads)
- Good Practice - MAR front cover (2834 downloads)
- Good Practice - Person In Charge Of Medication (2678 downloads)
- Good Practice - Sorbaderm Application Record (1890 downloads)
- Good Practice - Specimen Signature Sheet (2186 downloads)
- Good Practice - Thickener Administration Chart (2018 downloads)
- Good Practice - Transdermal Patch Application Record (3393 downloads)
- Good Practice - Warfarin Administration Chart (2985 downloads)
- Good Practice - Wash and Emollient Record (2111 downloads)
- Good Practice -Daily Transdermal Patch Application Record (2594 downloads)
- Nutritional Supplement Administration Chart (3340 downloads)
- Topical Application Record (3423 downloads)
Medicine orders, receipt and reconciliation
- Good Practice - Interim Medication Tracker (2589 downloads)
- Good Practice - Medication Reconciliation Tracker (1920 downloads)
- Good Practice - Monthly Medication Orders and Receipt Tracker Sheet (2130 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 (1224 downloads)
- Good Practice - Clinical Visit (1841 downloads)
- Good Practice Clinical Consultation Prescribing Checklist (1771 downloads)
- When Required or Variable Dose Medication (1836 downloads)
Prescribing guidance/ resources
- Good Practice Guidance for Care Homes - Think Kidneys (2031 downloads)
- I-Hydrate: Resources to Support the Hydration of Care Home Residents (UWL) (3015 downloads)
- NCIC Community Wound Management Formulary_Booklet (4665 downloads)
- Scottish UTI Network Urine Colour Chart (2321 downloads)
- STOMP STAMP key messages (3250 downloads)
- Useful prescribing information - a guide for prescribers (8685 downloads)
Self-administration
Specialist / Critical Medicines
- Good Practice - Blood Sugar Tracker Chart (2306 downloads)
- Good Practice - Warfarin Administration Chart (2985 downloads)
Storage of medicines
- Good Practice Refrigerator Temperature Monitoring Chart (2267 downloads)
- Good Practice - Medication Expiry Date (2318 downloads)
- Medication temperature record chart (2075 downloads)
- Room temperature record chart (1873 downloads)
Transfer of medicines out of care home
- Good Practice - Holiday or Day Leave Medication Tracker (1968 downloads)
- Good Practice - Medication Leaving Care Home Tracker Sheet (1966 downloads)
When required (PRN) medicines
- PRN and Variable Dose Medications (4087 downloads)
- When-Required-and-Variable-Dose-Medications (1356 downloads)
Competency
Medicine errors