Care homes in Scotland have been provided with fresh guidance on giving residents medication covertly when they lack the capacity to consent but are refusing treatment. The Mental Welfare Commission ...

Nursing home residents are four times as likely to receive an improper dosage of a medication if it is administered in a liquid format than as a pill or tablet. Other delivery formats, such as ...

A man suffered an opioid overdose following confusion among care home staff over his medication. Thompson Elliott, a resident at Grangewood in Houghton-le-Spring, was given medication in December for ...

The authors leave open the possibility that current reporting systems are not catching the impact of all medication errors. A different study earlier this year found that medical errors, including ...

No discussion of long-term care nursing is complete without broaching the topic of effective medication management. It is such a predominant part of the nursing routine that for some, a majority of ...

The concerns are detailed in a report on the service at the recently-built 52 bed care home, published by the Care ...