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Medicines management for people receiving social care in the community

  • Quality standard
  • Reference number: QS171
  • Published:  24 July 2018
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  1. Education
  2. Implementation support
  3. Audit and service improvement
  4. Guidance into practice

Tools and resources

Tools and resources to help you put the guidance into practice.

Education

  • Webinar: Giving medicines covertly – overcoming the challenges (NICE/SCIE September 2019)

  • Quick guide: Giving medicines covertly - for care home managers and home care managers providing medicines support

  • Webinar: Managing medicines in care homes and the community (NICE/SCIE September 2018)

  • Quick guide: Discussing and planning medicines support - for home care managers providing medicines support

  • Quick guide: Effective record keeping and ordering of medicines - for home care managers providing medicines support

Implementation support

  • How to use quality standards

  • Implementation resources

Audit and service improvement

  • Quality standard service improvement template (Excel 1.18 MB)

    Published:
    04 March 2025

Guidance into practice

  • About the Into practice guide

  • Practical steps to improving the quality of care and services using NICE guidance

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