The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7387 p155
11 February 2006

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Medication management has not improved in two years

Parliament has been told that the management of medication in care homes is no better than it was two years ago, when the National Care Standards Commission found the same failings as this week's report by the Commission of Social Care Inspection.

Paul Burstow (LibDem, Sutton and Cheam) said that the reasons behind the failing had not changed. “Lessons have not been learnt and attitudes have not changed,” he said.

Sandra Gidley (LibDem, Romsey) pointed out that the medication management standards set out in the National Service Framework for Older People were higher than those in the Quality Outcomes Framework for GPs. This meant that there was no incentive to achieve NSF milestones.

Health minister Jane Kennedy said that the CSCI report would be fed into a review of standards and regulations.