Identifying Medicines-related Problems

A process should be in place for identifying, reporting, reviewing, and learning from medicines errors. Working with relevant stakeholders, health and social care workers should develop a locally agreed action plan in line with local and national governance. These processes should work to improve the safety of residents and reduce medication errors in care homes. All suspected adverse effects from medicines should be recorded and sent to the health professional who prescribed the medicine. Details in the resident’s care plan and the supplying pharmacy should be recorded.