The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain's document The Handling of Medicines in Social Care provides guidance on improving the safety of medicine management. It shows how to appropriately handle medicine in services such as residential care homes, foster care and residential schools.
The guidance follows a 2006 report by the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), which criticised standards of medication handling. It found cases of poor recording of medicines received and administered, medicines being inappropriately handled by unqualified staff and medicines not being stored properly. The CSCI said residential homes needed to put medication management at thetop of their agenda.
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