Care homes

Medicines Management in Care Homes

Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB aims to support care homes with the safe use of medicines. The HIOW Care Homes Group, which is represented by all areas across the ICB footprint, have collated, reviewed and adopted both local and national resources to help healthcare professionals working with or in care homes to access useful information regarding medicines use.

Care services staff and NHS staff within the area of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICS are also able to register for free, robust, accessible and evidence-based resources via the partnership organisation PrescQIPP.

You can register for PrescQIPP resources on their website, just complete the registration section on the left hand side.

For organisation select :  ICS Hampshire and Isle of Wight

This will then allow you to access a large suite of documents, including their care homes section via : Home / Our resources / Weblists / Care homes / General resources (and other options). 

Useful topics include bulk prescribing in care homes, homely remedies, covert administration, medication and falls, antipsychotic use in dementia and many others.

E-learning materials are also available for care homes via the home/login page of PrescQIPP website, although these are of a limited number.

Training information on RESTORE2 and SBARD can be accessed via these links.

Nutritional guidance produced by our dieticians can be found in our Nutrition section.