How to Produce a Care Home Medicines Policy

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Care home providers should have a medicines policy in place to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines. This is a recommendation made by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in its guideline on ‘Managing medicines in care homes’, Social Care Guideline [SC1] which can be accessed here. The medicines policy should be regularly reviewed to make sure it is up to date and based on current legislation and the best available evidence.
The medicines policy should reflect the day-to-day activities in the care home and should be followed by every member of staff undertaking these activities. This guide is to assist care homes in gathering information required to write or update their policy.

July 2023

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