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Safety of medicines in the care home
— final project report - Phase two | | Corporate Author | National Care Forum - NCF |
| Publisher | National Care Forum - NCF, March 2013 |
| Pages | 31 pp |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Care homes ; Standards of provision ; Evaluation ; Projects. |
| Annotation | "Working together to develop practical solutions: an integrated approach to medication safety in care homes" was a cross-sector partnership project funded by the Department of Health (DH), and led by the National Care Forum (on behalf of the Care Provider Alliance) working with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), the Health Foundation, and Age UK. The partnership was formed to try and address some of the issues raised by the Care homes' use of medicines study (CHUMS) and ongoing concerns about safety and standards related to medication prescribing, administration and management in care homes. This report is the outcome of a meeting held on 19 February 2013 at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in London. It summarises the work of the project so far, presents a summary of the feedback from the testing in phase two, and pulls together the next steps suggested at the meeting. It notes that prototype tools were tested in some 163 care homes, of which 82 submitted their evaluation and feedback. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130614002 E |
| Classmark | LLD: KW: 583: 4C: 3E |
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