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 (12682 downloads )
- Good Practice Guidance Weekly Medication Audit Checklist (13396 downloads )
Controlled drugs
- Care Homes Letter August 2022 (12202 downloads )
- CD Bulletin - Issue 22 – April 22 (13298 downloads )
- CD Bulletin – Issue 24 – November 2022 (11365 downloads )
- CD Bulletin – Issue 25 – March 2023 (0 downloads )
- Common Controlled Drugs and Legal Requirements for Care Homes (12719 downloads )
- Management of CD in Care Homes (12343 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 (13620 downloads )
- Good Practice – Covert Medication Review form (12977 downloads )
- Permission to Administer Medication in Food to Facilitate Swallowing (12479 downloads )
Disposal and waste medicines
- Good Practice -Medicines-Waste-Top-Tips-for-Care-homes-Poster (11174 downloads )
- Good Practice – Medication Disposal Sheet (4349 downloads) (12568 downloads )
Homely remedies & self-care (OTC medicines)
- Homely medicines Stock Sheet (11971 downloads )
- Homely Remedies and Self-Care Products (11342 downloads )
- Homely Remedies Competency Assessment (11371 downloads )
- Recommendation for Self-Care Product (13769 downloads )
MAR chart and associated documents
- Emollient Record Chart (13112 downloads )
- Good Practice -Daily Transdermal Patch Application Record (11190 downloads )
- Good Practice – Aqueous Cream Wash Chart (11857 downloads )
- Good Practice – Insulin Injection Admin Record (12323 downloads )
- Good Practice – MAR front cover (12600 downloads )
- Good Practice – Person In Charge Of Medication (11890 downloads )
- Good Practice – Sorbaderm Application Record (13716 downloads )
- Good Practice – Specimen Signature Sheet (13602 downloads )
- Good Practice – Thickener Administration Chart (11116 downloads )
- Good Practice – Transdermal Patch Application Record (10991 downloads )
- Good Practice – Warfarin Administration Chart (12252 downloads )
- Good Practice – Wash and Emollient Record (0 downloads )
- Nutritional Supplement Administration Chart (12575 downloads )
- Topical Application Record (15197 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 (12060 downloads )
- Clinical Medication Review: A Practice Guide (10671 downloads )
- Good Practice – Clinical Visit (12079 downloads )
- Good Practice Clinical Consultation Prescribing Checklist (12475 downloads )
Prescribing guidance/ resources
- Good Practice Guidance for Care Homes – Think Kidneys (11842 downloads )
- Scottish UTI Network Urine Colour Chart (11179 downloads )
- STOMP STAMP key messages (13210 downloads )
Self-administration
Specialist / Critical Medicines
- Good Practice – Blood Sugar Tracker Chart (12119 downloads )
- Good Practice – Warfarin Administration Chart (12638 downloads )
Storage of medicines
- Good Practice – Medication Expiry Date (12452 downloads )
- Good Practice Refrigerator Temperature Monitoring Chart (13305 downloads )
- Medication temperature record chart (13269 downloads )
- Room temperature record chart (13359 downloads )
Transfer of medicines out of care homes
- Good Practice – Holiday or Day Leave Medication Tracker (12491 downloads )
- Good Practice – Medication Leaving Care Home Tracker Sheet (14040 downloads )
When required (PRN) medicines
- When Required and Variable Dose Medications – Guidance Notes (13008 downloads )
- When Required or Variable Dose Medication – Form for Patient Records (13247 downloads )