The problem
29% of care services in England are rated Requires Improvement or Inadequate. Medicines management is the most cited failure area in CQC inspections — and in over half of cases, the provider’s own internal audit had been completed recently and found nothing.
The failures
- PRN protocol failures
- Untrustworthy medicines records
- Topical medicines mismanagement
- Stock and administration failures
- Internal audits that miss everything
What attendees will leave with
✔ A clear understanding of which medicines failures are most likely to harm residents and trigger CQC action
✔ Practical checks they can carry out in their service immediately after the webinar
✔ An understanding of the difference between a genuine medicines audit and a tick-box stock count
✔ Confidence in identifying when their medicines governance needs independent review
✔ Awareness of what CQC inspectors actually look for under Regulations 12 and 17
The presenter
SafeMeds Audit Services provides independent, pharmacist-led medicines governance audits for care homes, supported living services, nursing homes and substance misuse residential services. Led by a GPhC Registered Pharmacist, SafeMeds specialises in identifying the medicines management failures internal audits miss.
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