Guidance and good practice for care homes and home care providers
The purpose of this page is to provide recommendations of good practice on the systems and processes for managing medicines in care homes. It is intended for staff who support individuals with medicines in care homes within Greater Manchester.
- Guidance and good practice for care homes - Winter 2022/23
- NHS Bolton Foundation Trust - Care Home - Think Twice poster (PDF 127kB)
- Winter Planning IPC Webinar - 19-10-2021 (Watch on YouTube)
- Commode Cleaning Audit Tool (PDF 460kB)
- Principles of safe medicine administration in a care home setting (PDF 6MB)
- Top tips for retention – A briefing for adult social care providers (HTML)
- Quality Assurance Framework – Guidance for Care Homes 2020-21 (PDF 528kB)
- Unsafe Discharge Form (ODT 86kB)
- Greater Manchester Smiles Better Toolkit (PDF 5.55MB)
- Common community infectious diseases relevant to inter-agency transfer of health care V2 Feb 2022 (PDF 188kB)