Children's homes fared much worse in its survey than homes for adults and only 37 per cent met the national minimum standards for medication handling in care homes. Forty-eight per cent almost met the standard, while 15 per cent failed completely.
Care homes run by the voluntary and not-for-profit sector generally performed better than private and local authority homes, the report found. Care homes owned by doctors were found to be no better at meeting the standard than other homes.
Homes with the worst medication scores tended to be those in which the overall quality and management of the home was poor. Typical examples of poor practice included the wrong medication being given, medicines being stored insecurely or at the wrong temperature and inappropriate handling of medicines by untrained staff.
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