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Medicines management in care homes

  • Quality standard
  • Reference number: QS85
  • Published:  25 March 2015
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  1. Education
  2. Implementation support
  3. Audit and service improvement
  4. Case studies
  5. Guidance into practice

Tools and resources

Tools to help you put the guidance into practice.

Education

  • Webinar: Giving medicines covertly – overcoming the challenges (NICE/SCIE September 2019)

  • Quick guide: Giving medicines covertly - for care home managers and home care managers providing medicines support

Implementation support

  • Endorsed resource – Care home charter for medicines

  • How to use quality standards

  • Endorsed resource – Medicines Use in Care Homes E-learning (course 2)

  • Endorsed resource – Medicines Use in Care Homes E-learning (course 1)

  • Implementation resources

Audit and service improvement

  • Quality standard service improvement template (Excel 1.18 MB)

    Published:
    04 March 2025
  • Using quality standards to improve practice in care homes for older people (PDF 278 KB)

    Published:
    11 January 2015

Case studies

  • Quality and Productivity case study - Ensuring appropriate use of monitored dosage systems: reducing unnecessary pharmacy workload

Guidance into practice

  • About the Into practice guide

  • Practical steps to improving the quality of care and services using NICE guidance

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