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    Re-Using Medicines in Care Homes During The COVID-19 Pandemic Checklist For Care Homes: Are You Ready?

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    The checklist provides guidance for care homes to safely reuse medicines during the COVID-19 pandemic. It outlines key tasks including reviewing medicine storage, sending letters to residents about reused medicines, conducting risk assessments signed off by a healthcare professional, identifying storage for reused medicines with a quarantine period, updating procedures in policies, and briefing staff on the changes. The goal is to ensure care homes are prepared to properly handle and account for reused medications.

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    The checklist provides guidance for care homes to safely reuse medicines during the COVID-19 pandemic. It outlines key tasks including reviewing medicine storage, sending letters to residents about reused medicines, conducting risk assessments signed off by a healthcare professional, identifying storage for reused medicines with a quarantine period, updating procedures in policies, and briefing staff on the changes. The goal is to ensure care homes are prepared to properly handle and account for reused medications.

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    The checklist provides guidance for care homes to safely reuse medicines during the COVID-19 pandemic. It outlines key tasks including reviewing medicine storage, sending letters to residents about reused medicines, conducting risk assessments signed off by a healthcare professional, identifying storage for reused medicines with a quarantine period, updating procedures in policies, and briefing staff on the changes. The goal is to ensure care homes are prepared to properly handle and account for reused medications.

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    Re-Using Medicines in Care Homes During The COVID-19 Pandemic Checklist For Care Homes: Are You Ready?

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    The checklist provides guidance for care homes to safely reuse medicines during the COVID-19 pandemic. It outlines key tasks including reviewing medicine storage, sending letters to residents about reused medicines, conducting risk assessments signed off by a healthcare professional, identifying storage for reused medicines with a quarantine period, updating procedures in policies, and briefing staff on the changes. The goal is to ensure care homes are prepared to properly handle and account for reused medications.

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    Re-using Medicines in Care Homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Checklist for Care Homes: Are you ready?


    Done
    Task Form to use
    (Y/N)
    https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government
    /uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/881
    838/medicines-reuse-in-care-homes.pdf and
    Read full guidance and local
    https://www.cambridgeshireandpeterboroughccg.n
    supporting information
    hs.uk/health-professionals/prescribing-
    information/formulary-and-drug-
    classification/prescribing-guidelines-and-policies/
    (under care homes)
    Review storage of medicines
    for people who self-administer

    Have discussions and send out


    Letter to Residents re: Re-used Medicines
    letters to residents
    Know how to do a risk
    assessment on medicines you
    think may need to be available Risk Assessment for the Requirement of Re-used
    for re-use. For residential Medicines
    homes – get these signed off by
    a healthcare professional
    Identify where medicines
    suitable for reuse will be stored
    including those that need to be
    Log of Re-Used Medicines During COVID-19
    quarantined for 3 days. Ensure
    that reused medicines log is
    accessible

    Put your new updated


    procedures in your policy

    Brief your staff on the changes

    Name and
    Date:
    Signature

    Re-using Medicines in Care Homes and Hospices in England during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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