Medicines Management: Professional resources
There are numerous resources available to support medicines management as well as standards for nursing staff and other health care professionals.
This page will help you to find useful resources, standards and guidance to support medicines management.
RCN
- RCN. Medicines Management: An overview for nursing
- RCN advice guide. Non-medical prescribers
- RCN. Medicines management subject guide
- RCN. Children and young people: Medicines management subject guide
- RCN. Social prescribing. Find out more about social prescribing and the RCN Congress fringe event on social prescribing
RCN and RPS
- RCN and RPS. Guidance on Prescribing, Dispensing, Supplying and Administration of Medicines (2020). This publication provides information on the ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ and Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s position on the prescribing, dispensing, supplying and administration of medicines.
- RCN and RPS. (2019) (PDF). This professional guidance has been co-produced by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and the ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ (RCN) and provides principles-based guidance to ensure the safe administration of medicines by healthcare professionals. This guidance has been endorsed by the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- This new framework will help universities running independent prescribing programmes, NHS trusts and boards with independent prescribers, trainee independent prescribers and experienced independent prescribers to understand the expectations for a DPP through standardised competency descriptors.
- RPS. . This framework sets out what good prescribing looks like. It describes the demonstrable knowledge, skills, characteristics, qualities and behaviours for a safe and effective prescribing role.
- RPS. . This new online guide will help pharmacists to develop the leadership qualities needed to work at local and regional level across different NHS systems in England.
- RPS. . This guidance has been endorsed by the RCN. This guidance provides a summary of the scale and complexity of the issue of polypharmacy. It outlines how healthcare professionals, patients and carers can find solutions when polypharmacy causes problems for patients and points to useful resources that can help.
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NICE
- NICE. provides support for medicines and prescribing
- NICE. . Guidance providing good practice recommendations for individual people and organisations involved with PGDs
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- NICE. Register for via the NICE website
- NICE. . A quick guide for care home managers and home care managers providing medicines support
Further resources
- All Wales Medicines Strategy Group.
- British Medical Association.
- . This report describes lessons for better medicines optimisation across health and social care providers and the positive impact of involving pharmacy professionals in health and social care settings
- General Medical Council.
- General Pharmaceutical Council. . This information is for all healthcare professionals with prescribing responsibilities. It sets out the shared high level principles of good practice expected of everyone when consulting and or prescribing remotely from the patient
- . This website provides tools and resources to help with decision making around prescribing and the legal frameworks and associated processes in relation to medicines management
- NHS England, Clinical Reference Group. These resources support clinicians prescribing pain medicines in prisons
- NMC. . The NMC code presents the professional standards that nurses, midwives and nursing associates must uphold in order to be registered to practise in the UK
- NMC. . These standards set out what nursing associates know and can do when they join our register
- NMC. . Part 3 of Realising professionalism: Standards for education and training
- Scottish Government.
- NHS Scotland. Effective prescribing and therapeutics. . This provides guidance on preventing inappropriate polypharmacy at every stage of the patient journey. See also links to .
- RCP. This guidance has been endorsed by the RCN.
Medicine supply and administration
Non medical prescribers
Read the RCN's advice guide on non-medical prescribers
Nursing Associates and medicine administration
Nursing associates need to work to the , and need to be trained and competent to administer medicines. For more information, see:
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The registered nurse working with the nursing associate needs to understand their role in delegating medicines administration. See also: (PDF).
Nursing associates are unable to operate under a PGD they will need a PSD or a signed medication administration chart in order to administer medicine. See: .
Page last updated - 07/10/2024