End of Care Home Pharmacy Team – Final Newsletter

As part of national restructuring, Hertfordshire will be joining Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes, and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to form the new Central East ICB. West Essex will become part of the new Essex ICB. As part of these changes the HWE ICB Care...

Rivastigmine Patches Supply Disruption

There is a supply disruption to Rivastigmine 4.6mg/24hours and 9.5mg/24hours transdermal patches, which are in limited supply until w/c 15 December 2025. Please follow the information in the medicines supply notification (MSN) here and in the SPS medicines supply tool...

Medicines reconciliation

‘Medicines reconciliation’ is the process of accurately listing a resident’s medicines. Following several recent medication errors, please can home managers and clinical leads remind their staff about the importance of ‘medicines reconciliation’ when residents come...