A new report ‘SAFE: Banishing Medication Errors in Care Homes (Safeguard Against Frontline Errors)’ has been launched by Omnicell UK & Ireland, the world-leading provider of automated healthcare and medication adherence solutions. The report is part of a campaign to ...

Claire Buckle, Manager At Coach House Care Home For The Elderly, Discusses How The Introduction Of New Technology Has Improved Patient Safety Within Their Care Home Care home residents take on average 7.2 medicines per day and with each additional ...

“Care homes must keep a record of all controlled drugs obtained and supplied in a bound book or register with numbered pages. It is also good practice to keep separate records of inpatients using their own controlled drugs, which have ...

PharmaCare is a NHS registered online pharmacy that offers a wide range of services tailored to meet the health needs of the community. PharmaCare is supervised by fully qualified pharmacists who are available to discuss your medical issues and problems ...

Action needed to prevent confusion over medicines Only about a third (37%) of the public trust evidence from medical research, compared to approximately two-thirds (65%) who trust the experiences of their friends and family*, according to a report launched today. ...

By Martin England, Pharmacy Services Director, Ashtons Hospital Pharmacy Services It is now 26 years since the then Health Secretary, Virginia Bottomley, successfully argued in favour of providing hospices with a prescribing budget, instead of using NHS prescriptions to obtain ...

The Cleaning Show 2017 saw 5,767 professional trade attendees including the great and the good from the cleaning and hygiene sector over three days ExCeL London, 14-16 March. This was a 5% increase on the previous Cleaning Show held in ...

New research has shown a drug can remove the Alzheimer’s disease hallmark amyloid protein from the brains of people in the early stages of the disease. The research is published today (Wednesday 31 August) in the journal Nature. The drug, ...

An innovative and engaging board game that helps frontline healthcare staff to minimise medication errors has been developed by Focus Games Ltd and City University London. The Drug Round Game is helping healthcare staff and students to understand, recognise and ...