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.
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National & local guidance
- Choice & Medication
- CQC medicine guides
- HCC Medication Dom care policy – updated April 2024
- Hertfordshire & West Essex ICB Care Homes Good Practice Guidance – high risk medications
- Hertfordshire & West Essex ICB Guidance for Care Homes
- Hertfordshire & West Essex ICB When Required (PRN) Medicines
- National guidance – Care home
- National guidance – Community services
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
Get in touch
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