Care homes: supporting people, optimising medicines part five

Welcome to the fifth 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.

Before you begin, have you completed:

Care homes: suporting people, optimising medicines, part one; part two; part three; part four. 

Learning objectives

After reading this module, and the online learning from CPPE, pharmacy technicians will:

• Understand the phrase ‘safeguarding’
• Recognise its purpose
• Have a better understanding of how to respond to a safeguarding incident.