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Handled with care?
— managing medication for residents of care homes and children's homes - a follow-up study | | Corporate Author | Commission for Social Care Inspection - CSCI |
| Publisher | Commission for Social Care Inspection - CSCI, London, February 2006 |
| Pages | 44 pp (CSCI-SSR-34-5000-DWP-022006) |
| Source | Commission for Social Care Inspection, 33 Greycoat Street, London SW1P 2QF. Copies from: Admail 3804, Newcastle, NE99 1DY. E-mail: csci@accessplus.co.uk http://www.csci.org.uk/publications/national_repor... |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Registration eg homes, nursing homes ; Management [care] ; Standards of provision ; Inspection. |
| Annotation | In its report, "The management of medication in care services 2002-03" (TSO, 2004), CSCI's predecessor organisation the National Care Standards Commission (NCSI) identified deficiencies in care homes' practice in managing medication. The present report considers whether homes are getting better at meeting standards for the management of medication, and indicators for good and poor practice. It shows that while there has been some slight improvement in performance overall (with the exception of nursing homes for older people), homes still do not place enough importance on this area of care. Key areas of poor performance identified are: wrong medication being given to residents; poor recording of medicines received and administered; medicines being inappropriately handled by unqualified staff; and medicines being stored inappropriately. Accordingly, the report makes recommendations for councils, primary care organisations, the National Patient Safety Agency, as well as for the homes themselves. Appendices include: national minimum standards on medication; summary of the 2004 NCSC report; and questionnaires for regulatory inspectors and pharmacist inspectors. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060207001 B |
| Classmark | LLD: KW: LHB: Q3: QA: 583: 3U |
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