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...

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...

Accurate ‘Medicines reconciliation’

The below message has been sent from Maxine Davis, Lead Pharmaceutical Adviser, Social Care Integration, Hertfordshire, and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB). Following several recent medication errors, the ICB care home pharmacy team would like to ask care home...

Emollient creams update

The guidance on the expiry date of emollient creams once opened has changed! Emollient creams can now be used for 3 months after opening regardless of if they are dispensed in a pump, tub, or tube. All emollients should be for named residents and the date of opening...