HCPA Medication Webpage Update: Emollient Formulary & Guidance

Source: NHS East and North Hertfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group   East and North Herts CCG have recently updated their emollient formulary and guidance to ensure the best use of NHS resources, all the recommended products are < £5/500g. For service users...

New NICE Initiative Launched: Good Community Medicines Support

Source: NICE The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has worked with a number of partner organisations, including Skills for Care, to launch a new initiative to encourage better medicines support for people who are receiving social care services...

New NICE / SCIE Quick Guide on Giving Medicines Covertly

A quick guide for care home managers and home care managers providing medicines support   Adults should not be given medicines covertly unless they have been assessed as lacking the mental capacity to make decisions about their health or medicines. The quick...

CAS Alert: Class 2 Medicines Recall

Source: Medicines & Healthcare Products & Regulatory Agency (MHRA)   Description M & A Pharmachem Ltd. is recalling the following batches of Paracetamol 500mg tablets due to a small number of pots from each batch have been found to contain discoloured...

Medicines in Health and Adult Social Care

Source:  CQC   Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a report sharing the learning from risks and good practices in medicines, which they found in their inspections. CQC have seen that medicines can present a clear risk to people when not used properly....

Programme to tackle over-medication in care homes launched

Source: LaingBuisson News   NHS England has recruited medical and clinical staff as part of its £20m programme to help prevent care home residents being given too much medication.   Residents are prescribed an average of seven medicines a day, with many...