Medication Training: is it Level 2 or Level 3?
If you’ve looked at other medication training courses from non-specialist general training providers, you may…
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Which controlled drugs (CDs) need to be locked up, recorded and witnessed?
Controlled Drugs (CDs) can be confusing until you realise there are 5 different schedules.
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Top 12 CQC Medicines Inspection Areas
We examined 80 CQC inspection reports from a range of different services (rated as outstanding…
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How Much Does Medication Training Cost
With some subjects, annual training often just ticks a box.
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How long should you keep medicine charts for – CQC
CQC updated their advice on medicines records and made the following changes.
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When do CQC say a witness is needed?
CQC and OFSTED (and Care Inspectorate Wales) inspect against NICE guidelines.
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How often, and how, should medication training be repeated and competence assessed?
Regulation 18 of The Health and Social Care Act 2008 states sufficient numbers of trained…
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Medicines storage in a heatwave
With the increasing temperatures the UK now faces in the summer, do you need to…
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Reuse of medicines in care homes during COVID-19
With the risk that COVID-19 might affect the availability of medicines, NHS England issued new…
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Blister packs are being withdrawn – what’s really happening?
With the risk that COVID-19 might affect the availability of medicines, NHS England issued new…
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Gabapentin and pregabalin – controlled drugs demystified
Gabapentin and pregabalin were reclassified as controlled drugs (CDs) back in April 2019, yet many…
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MHRA extends fire risk to emollients containing any amount of liquid paraffin
Emollients are moisturising creams, ointments, lotions and gels applied to the skin to treat dry…
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Managing (and learning from) medication errors.
NICE guidelines fail to give clear advice on whether room temperatures need monitoring for medicines…
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Medicines storage: do care homes really need to monitor room temperature?
NICE guidelines fail to give clear advice on whether room temperatures need monitoring for medicines…
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New advice from NICE (2017) means all medicines support should be recorded on a medicines chart
Following new advice from NICE (March 2017) for community settings [1], all medicines support provided…
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Covert Administration of Medicines
A recent Court of Protection ruling on the administration of covert medication has implications for all…
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Review of Expiry Date Advice
Some manufacturers state that for certain items like creams, oral liquids, eye drops etc.
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