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 (742 downloads )
- Good Practice Guidance Weekly Medication Audit Checklist (724 downloads )
Controlled drugs
- Care Homes Letter August 2022 (668 downloads )
- CD Bulletin - Issue 22 – April 22 (681 downloads )
- CD Bulletin – Issue 24 – November 2022 (663 downloads )
- CD Bulletin – Issue 25 – March 2023 (0 downloads )
- Common Controlled Drugs and Legal Requirements for Care Homes (710 downloads )
- Management of CD in Care Homes (715 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 (745 downloads )
- Good Practice – Covert Medication Review form (719 downloads )
- Permission to Administer Medication in Food to Facilitate Swallowing (667 downloads )
Disposal and waste medicines
- Good Practice -Medicines-Waste-Top-Tips-for-Care-homes-Poster (669 downloads )
- Good Practice – Medication Disposal Sheet (4349 downloads) (672 downloads )
Homely remedies & self-care (OTC medicines)
- Homely medicines Stock Sheet (673 downloads )
- Homely Remedies and Self-Care Products (661 downloads )
- Homely Remedies Competency Assessment (658 downloads )
- Recommendation for Self-Care Product (686 downloads )
MAR chart and associated documents
- Emollient Record Chart (693 downloads )
- Good Practice -Daily Transdermal Patch Application Record (710 downloads )
- Good Practice – Aqueous Cream Wash Chart (667 downloads )
- Good Practice – Insulin Injection Admin Record (697 downloads )
- Good Practice – MAR front cover (690 downloads )
- Good Practice – Person In Charge Of Medication (689 downloads )
- Good Practice – Sorbaderm Application Record (667 downloads )
- Good Practice – Specimen Signature Sheet (675 downloads )
- Good Practice – Thickener Administration Chart (683 downloads )
- Good Practice – Transdermal Patch Application Record (727 downloads )
- Good Practice – Warfarin Administration Chart (654 downloads )
- Good Practice – Wash and Emollient Record (0 downloads )
- Nutritional Supplement Administration Chart (701 downloads )
- Topical Application Record (711 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 (672 downloads )
- Clinical Medication Review: A Practice Guide (657 downloads )
- Good Practice – Clinical Visit (704 downloads )
- Good Practice Clinical Consultation Prescribing Checklist (689 downloads )
Prescribing guidance/ resources
- Good Practice Guidance for Care Homes – Think Kidneys (663 downloads )
- Scottish UTI Network Urine Colour Chart (654 downloads )
- STOMP STAMP key messages (659 downloads )
Self-administration
Specialist / Critical Medicines
- Good Practice – Blood Sugar Tracker Chart (666 downloads )
- Good Practice – Warfarin Administration Chart (649 downloads )
Storage of medicines
- Good Practice – Medication Expiry Date (689 downloads )
- Good Practice Refrigerator Temperature Monitoring Chart (713 downloads )
- Medication temperature record chart (695 downloads )
- Room temperature record chart (704 downloads )
Transfer of medicines out of care homes
- Good Practice – Holiday or Day Leave Medication Tracker (677 downloads )
- Good Practice – Medication Leaving Care Home Tracker Sheet (719 downloads )
When required (PRN) medicines
- When Required and Variable Dose Medications – Guidance Notes (730 downloads )
- When Required or Variable Dose Medication – Form for Patient Records (721 downloads )