Medicines Handling in Social Care: a step in the right direction

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Medicines Handling in Social Carea step in the
right direction

• Christine Clark PhD FRPharmS

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Process

• How we tackled the task
• How we structured the guidance

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Team

• Heidi Wright (head of quality improvement, RPSGB)
• Hazel Sommerville
• Gillian Arr-Jones
• Alison Rees
• Diane Heath
• their staff

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The Brief

• Update The administration and control of medicine
  in care homes and childrens services (RPSGB
  2003)
• Make it useful and accessible to the people who
  will use it
• Care providers
• Care workers

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The concept

• Guidance not a rule book
• Simple, clear language
• Bullet points vs paragraph numbering
• Explanations
• Guiding principles
• What can go wrong
• What your systems/procedures need to cover

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The structure

• Principles of safe and appropriate medicines
  handling
• Tips, examples, illustrations
• What can go wrong
• Handling medicines in social care settings
• Handling medicines specific services
• The medicines toolkit
• References and weblinks

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Specific services

• Adult placement
• Boarding schools, school care accommodation,
  special residential schools
• Care at home, domiciliary care
• Child care, early education
• Childrens home, secure accommodation, short
  break and respite services
• Day care
• Drug and alcohol rehabilitation
• Foster care
• Housing support, supported living
• Palliative care
• Residential care for adults, residential care for
  older people, short break and respite services
• Residential family centre

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Example medicine records

• To learn about medicine records in social care,
  refer to Principle 2.
• Then read Record-keeping in Chapter 2.
• Look for your specific care service in Chapter 3
  to find out what records are important and also
  check on the website of your regulator what the
  legal requirements are.
• Finally, there is further information about
  Medicine Administration Records (MAR) in the
  Medicines Toolkit (Chapter 4).

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Consultation and feedback

• Pharmacists
• Healthcare professionals
• Professional bodies stakeholders
• Several rounds of consultation
• Feedback

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Summary

• Accessible guidance
• Supports social care settings in tackling
  criticisms of Handled with care?
• Protects patients
• Protects staff
• Will enhance quality of care