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Medication Masterclass – Outstanding Medicines Management
In this masterclass, learn how to ensure that you, and your staff, are managing medicines correctly so that those you support are safe. You will also be introduced to a targeted in-depth audit tool that will help you meet and exceed the latest regulatory and best practice requirements to gain top ratings from the CQC.
- Live webinar with our trainer
- Opportunity to ask questions
- No need to travel to the training
- Dates throughout the year
£295.00
- Live webinar with our trainer
- Opportunity to ask questions
- No need to travel to the training
- Dates throughout the year
Course overview
Learn how to ensure that you, and your staff, are managing medicines correctly so that those you support are safe. You will also be introduced to a targeted in-depth audit tool that will help you meet and exceed the latest regulatory and best practice requirements to gain top ratings from the CQC.
Aimed at
Managers and senior staff who manage medicines in care homes and other social care settings.
Speaker
The workshop is led by John Greene: a registered pharmacist with over 30 years’ experience. John is lead trainer and owner of the Medication Training Company.
Since 2004, John and his team have supported more than 25 local authorities and hundreds of private care providers, with consultancy, medication policy writing, audits and training. John has authored 5 books on the subject.
Course content
- Part 1: How to manage and reduce the risk from medication errors
Managing medication errors is a challenging part of anyone’s role, but by trying to reduce medication error numbers alone, that’s the wrong approach. Errors are your opportunities to learn, to improve, you need this data to learn. Hence you need to encourage reporting and, counterintuitively, with success reported incidents might even go up.
But your key metric is to measure the harm they cause and see this go down.
This course will teach you how to manage, report and learn from medication incidents. It will enable you to provide the correct response to Safeguarding Teams and the Care Quality Commission. It will enable you to reduce the chance of harm from medication incidents occurring by learning from them.
- Part 2: How to attain and maintain top ratings from CQC for managing medicines
We’ve examined over 100 CQC reports to see which areas CQC currently target when inspecting medicines. We’ll see how others have achieved good / outstanding in their inspection reports, ensuring you meet all legal and best practice responsibilities.
Handout
In addition to the downloadable handout, you will be sent a free electronic copy of our medicines incident form and investigation protocols.
We’ll also provide you with an in-depth medicines audit tool developed and field tested over many years. It provides a deep dive into your medication management processes to ensure that you attain and maintain high inspection results.
Certification
Certificate of achievement provided (no expiry).

Accreditation
This course is accredited by CPD Assessed

Mapping
- The Care Certificate
- CQC Quality Statements 1, 7 and 8
- NICE – Management of Medicines in Care Homes, March 2014
- NICE – Management of Medicines in Community Settings, March 2017
- Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) 2014
Pricing
- Per person: £295 + VAT (£354) or £250 + VAT (£300) for charities/voluntary organisations
- Groups (2+seats) receive a 15% discount
Cost
Per Person | Price (Excluding VAT) |
---|---|
1 | £295.00 |
2+ | £250.75 |
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Upcoming course dates
With this virtual version of the course:
In this masterclass, learn how to ensure that you, and your staff, are managing medicines correctly so that those you support are safe. You will also be introduced to a targeted in-depth audit tool that will help you meet and exceed the latest regulatory and best practice requirements to gain top ratings from the CQC.
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