Medication
Utilise the HCPA Medication page for Care Homes and Community Services in Hertfordshire. These resources and guidance have been sourced in conjunction with local specialists and national guidance. If you can’t find what you’re looking for you can still call the HCPA Provider Hub via assistance@hcpa.co.uk.
Please note the Care Home Pharmacy team from Herts and West Essex ICB was disbanded in March 2026. We do still maintain a number of their resources, newsletters and webinar on this resource page as remain relevant. HCPA will continue to review and replace where required.
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National & local guidance
Administration & recording
- Accessing Palliative care drugs
- Accurate Medicines reconciliation
- Administration & records
- Controlled Drugs
- Covert administration in care homes
- Homely remedies & self/over the counter medication
- Medicines Reconciliation and Transfer of Care – Care homes practice guidance
- Patches
- Preventing infection in care homes – medication pots
- PRN medication
- Reviews in care homes
- Self-Administration – Care homes good practice guidance
- Specials/alternative medicines including crushing
- The 8 rights of medication
- Vitamin D
Pharmacies
Reporting errors
Education & competencies
- Checklist for medicines management training in adult social care
- Education & competencies
- Electronic medicines competency assessment record (Word)
- Medication standards for care homes
- Medicines competency assessment guide for adult social care settings
- Paper medicines competency assessment record (Word)
- Past webinar resources
- Quality assurance checklists for medicines training pocesses in adult community settings
- Quality assurance checklists for medicines training processes in adult social care settings
- Quality assurance checklist for medicines training processes in care homes
- Skills for Care Medicines management training guidance & resources
Other guidance
- Allergies & emollients
- Anticoagulants & head injuries
- HIV Drug Interaction Checker
- Ordering & waste reduction in care homes
- Reducing antipsychotic use for non-cognitive symptoms in dementia
- Reducing harm from omitted delayed medication
- Safe storage and management of Adrenaline Auto-Injectors
- Safety needles
- Other useful resources
Get in touch
Send us a message and we will get back to you as soon as we can, or you can give us a call on 01707 536 020