Medication Management in Residential Aged Care
Links & resources
Comply with accreditation and legislative requirements for ordering and storing medicines- Resource kit
- This is a Drugs and Poisons Controls in Victoria resource kit to enable implementation of the APAC guidelines for medication management in RACFs containing recommendations for modification of oral formulations. This list may not be up to date, refer also to the latest edition of the Australian Medicines Handbook.
- Medication Handling in Community Based Health Services/Residential Facilities in NSW – Guidelines
- This document outlines policy and procedures for all aspects of medication handling, from obtaining medicines to reporting medication incidents. It provides best practice principles for the handling of medication and could be used as a basis for the formulation of local policy and procedure documents.
Comply with legislative requirements for ordering and storing medicines Audit the processes for ordering and storing medicines- Resource kit
- This is a Drugs and Poisons Controls in Victoria resource kit to enable implementation of the APAC guidelines for medication management in RACFs containing recommendations for modification of oral formulations. This list may not be up to date, refer also to the latest edition of the Australian Medicines Handbook.
