Opus’ 3-hour interactive workshop aims to help homecare & reablement organisations exceed the standard for medicines management and to sustain their performance. Objectives

1. To ensure that medicines management in homecare support high quality palliative care
2. To understand the processes involved with medicines management
3. To reduce the likelihood of errors by mismanagement by using audit tools
4. To manage incidents when they happen

Course Content:

• What is poor practice?
• Identifying good practice
• How to get it right
• Understanding processes
• What are the hazards
• Importance of records
• Principles of an audit tool
• Action planning
• Exercise and activities
• Case studies and scenarios to assess understanding of principles

The accredited course to enable senior staff to effectively audit medicines in homecare to prevent medicines errors and incidents.