Care homes: supporting people, optimising medicines

Welcome to the first module in our series looking at care homes. This module reproduces some content from the Care homes: supporting people, optimising medicines programme with the kind permission of the NHS-funded Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE), and is designed to give you an overview and better understanding of this area of practice. For more detailed information on this topic, please view the full programme on CPPE’s website: https://bit.ly/CPPE-AtoZ.

Learning objectives

After reading this module, pharmacy technicians will:

• Recognise the types of care homes settings
• Be aware of their responsibility in medicines optimisation
• Understand that care home residents have ‘different’ needs from those in primary care services.