Care homes: supporting people, optimising medicines part three

Welcome to the third 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: supporting people, optimising medicines: part one and part two. 

Learning objectives

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

• Recognise the fundamentals of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Understand the concept of covert administration
• Be aware of the impact of advance decision making.

There are many pieces of legislation and supporting guidelines that drive best practice in work in care homes. Here we highlight legislation you will need to be familiar with, and how it will affect your practice.