Explain Why The Law Should By Law Have A Care Home

Care homes should by law have a care home medicines policy. This has to be reviewed regularly to ensure it is up to date and it is based on current laws.
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The policy should include:

 The policy should include a procedure for sharing information about a resident's medicines. This is especially important if the resident has to go into hospital or move onto another care home.

 The policy should include procedures that the resident's medicine records are kept up to date. This is especially important if the resident has been given new medication, had medication withdrawn or had their doses increased or lowered.

 A Care home should record medication that is not suited to the resident. If the resident is given medication that are not suited, this could have a huge impact on the resident and their health.

 Keeping residents' medicine safe. This is especially important as residents could take the medicine without realising that they were endangering themselves. Especially important when residents have dementia. All medications should be in a locked safe and only family members and care works have access. If not kept safe this could become a safeguarding issue.

 The police should a procedure to tell the care workers/managers what to do when ordering new medication for the residents.

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It is known that some residents are able to take their medication themselves which is known as self administration, but this can be rare. When I managed the residential home I did have a few residents able to self administrate but most of my residents had to rely on care workers or family members to give them their medication. All the residents had dosset boxes, which gave the day and morning, afternoon and night listed so that the residents knew when to take the medication. These dosset boxes were standard when the medication was delivered from the