Care Home Resources
Resources such as guidelines, policies, and e-learning platforms to support Care Homes, General Practitioners, Pharmacy Teams and other primary care prescribers in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care System (ICS).
Care Home Resources
The documents in this section are currently being reviewed and remediated into an accessible format. If the document you require, is not available, please contact Prescribing Partnership and request a copy.
We have a dedicated Care Home Medicine Enquiry (CHME) service to support our care homes with structured medication reviews, medicines shortages, new resident medicine queries, discharge medication queries, new admissions, medication storage, waste processes and training on safe use of medicines.
For all care home queries please contact our dedicated secure nhs.net email address. cpicb.prescribingpartnership@nhs.net.
This email account is checked regularly Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm excluding bank holidays.
Any queries received after 4.30pm on a Friday will be addressed the following Monday morning unless it's a bank holiday in which case it will be actioned the following normal working day.
Anything urgent related to medicines which requires a response outside these operational hours, please contact your local community pharmacy or access www.nhs.uk. Alternatively, we will respond to your e-mail upon our return.
ICS Care home Policies and Guidelines
- Covert administration of Medication in Adults
- Covert administration of Medication in Adults - GP
- Fridge Temperature Monitoring Good Practice Guidance for Care Homes
- GP Surgery to Care Home - Communication of medication changes
- Guidance on Bulk Prescribing for Care Home Patients
- Good Practice Guide: Expiry dates, storage and reducing waste
- Homely Remedies Guide
- Managing Transdermal Patches in Care Home settings
- Process for medicines management of an outbreak of scabies in a care home or residential setting
- Proxy Ordering Guide (SystmOne)
- PRN Protocol Guidance
- Self Care Policy for Care homes
Useful Information - External Sources
- CQC - Administering medicines when a person is away from their usual care setting
- CQC - Delegating medicines administration
- CQC - Disposing of medicines
- CQC - Enteral feeding and medicines administration
- CQC - External medicines such as creams and patches
- CQC - Infection prevention and control in care homes
- CQC - Managing oxygen in care homes
- CQC - Medicines reconciliation and medication review
- CQC - Reporting medicine-related incidents
- CQC - Self-administered medicines in care homes
- CQC - Storing medicines in fridges
- CQC - Time sensitive medicines
- CQC - Training and competency for medicines optimisation in adult social care
- CQC - When required (PRN) medicines
- CQC - Working with external health care professionals
- NICE - Guidelines Managing medicines in care homes
- PrescQIPP – Care home webkits
- PrescQIPP – Bulk prescribing
- PrescQIPP – Homely remedies
- PrescQIPP – Medication and Falls
- PrescQIPP - Implementing NICE and SIGN guidelines in care homes
- PrescQIPP – Use of monitored dosage systems
- PrescQIPP - Assisting people with swallowing difficulties
- PrescQIPP – Emollient and Barrier preparations
- PrescQIPP – Covert administration
- PrescQIPP – Transfer of care around medicines
- PrescQIPP – Enhanced health in care homes – medicines optimisation
- PrescQIPP - Prescribing, ordering and receiving medicines in care homes
- PrescQIPP – Medicines administration in care homes
- PrescQIPP - Care homes/domiciliary care - Pharmacy Technician medication review and process
- PrescQIPP – Electronic repeat dispensing – SystmOne
- PrescQIPP – Electronic repeat dispensing – EMIS
- SPS - Resources to support answering medication questions in primary care
- STOPP/START - NHS England
Additional Training available
Access to free e-Learning platforms and packages will require registration if you do not have an active account.
- CPPE (Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education) - pharmacy professionals must first register with CPPE.
- PrescQIPP e-learning - Login will be required.
CPPE - follow this link (e-learning listing : CPPE) for the following training - Suitable for all Pharmacy staff
- Biochemistry Section 1
- Biochemistry Section 2
- Biochemistry Section 3
- Care homes: Supporting people, optimising medicines
- Consulting with people living with Dementia
- Consulting with people with mental health problems
- Documenting in patients clinical records
- Learning Disabilities
- Older people
- Polypharmacy
PrescQIPP e-learning - Suitable for Care home staff
- Medicines Use in care homes - Course 1
- Medicines Use in care homes - Course 2
- Medicines Use in care homes - Course 3