Care homes: supporting people, optimising medicines part two

Welcome to the second 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.

Learning objectives:

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

• Understand the purpose of medicines optimisation
• Be aware of some crucial moments in its development
• Know the requirements needed for delivery.