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 (8350 downloads )
- Good Practice Guidance Weekly Medication Audit Checklist (9101 downloads )
Controlled drugs
- Care Homes Letter August 2022 (7828 downloads )
- CD Bulletin - Issue 22 – April 22 (8555 downloads )
- CD Bulletin – Issue 24 – November 2022 (8024 downloads )
- CD Bulletin – Issue 25 – March 2023 (0 downloads )
- Common Controlled Drugs and Legal Requirements for Care Homes (8332 downloads )
- Management of CD in Care Homes (7998 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 (9083 downloads )
- Good Practice – Covert Medication Review form (8305 downloads )
- Permission to Administer Medication in Food to Facilitate Swallowing (8368 downloads )
Disposal and waste medicines
- Good Practice -Medicines-Waste-Top-Tips-for-Care-homes-Poster (6963 downloads )
- Good Practice – Medication Disposal Sheet (4349 downloads) (7991 downloads )
Homely remedies & self-care (OTC medicines)
- Homely medicines Stock Sheet (7574 downloads )
- Homely Remedies and Self-Care Products (7925 downloads )
- Homely Remedies Competency Assessment (7179 downloads )
- Recommendation for Self-Care Product (9269 downloads )
MAR chart and associated documents
- Emollient Record Chart (8808 downloads )
- Good Practice -Daily Transdermal Patch Application Record (7992 downloads )
- Good Practice – Aqueous Cream Wash Chart (7646 downloads )
- Good Practice – Insulin Injection Admin Record (7955 downloads )
- Good Practice – MAR front cover (8247 downloads )
- Good Practice – Person In Charge Of Medication (7795 downloads )
- Good Practice – Sorbaderm Application Record (8967 downloads )
- Good Practice – Specimen Signature Sheet (9325 downloads )
- Good Practice – Thickener Administration Chart (6784 downloads )
- Good Practice – Transdermal Patch Application Record (7869 downloads )
- Good Practice – Warfarin Administration Chart (7851 downloads )
- Good Practice – Wash and Emollient Record (0 downloads )
- Nutritional Supplement Administration Chart (7867 downloads )
- Topical Application Record (10669 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 (7916 downloads )
- Clinical Medication Review: A Practice Guide (7500 downloads )
- Good Practice – Clinical Visit (8540 downloads )
- Good Practice Clinical Consultation Prescribing Checklist (8470 downloads )
Prescribing guidance/ resources
- Good Practice Guidance for Care Homes – Think Kidneys (7579 downloads )
- Scottish UTI Network Urine Colour Chart (7958 downloads )
- STOMP STAMP key messages (8515 downloads )
Self-administration
Specialist / Critical Medicines
- Good Practice – Blood Sugar Tracker Chart (8238 downloads )
- Good Practice – Warfarin Administration Chart (8300 downloads )
Storage of medicines
- Good Practice – Medication Expiry Date (8375 downloads )
- Good Practice Refrigerator Temperature Monitoring Chart (9227 downloads )
- Medication temperature record chart (8364 downloads )
- Room temperature record chart (9026 downloads )
Transfer of medicines out of care homes
- Good Practice – Holiday or Day Leave Medication Tracker (7856 downloads )
- Good Practice – Medication Leaving Care Home Tracker Sheet (9848 downloads )
When required (PRN) medicines
- When Required and Variable Dose Medications – Guidance Notes (8795 downloads )
- When Required or Variable Dose Medication – Form for Patient Records (8583 downloads )