Support Material: Compliance Aids and Self Medication
PLEASE NOTE: The following documents have been donated by teams who are willing to share their experiences, expertise and knowledge. Please be aware that a considerable amount of time and effort has gone into the production of these documents and if you are planning to use them within your own organisation they should be referenced appropriately within your individual Trust Policies or Procedures. This is particularly important where the documents are copyright under intellectual copyright. If you are planning to use these documents in developing and producing work for any national or international organisation e.g. CSIP, NICE, National Prescribing Centre, Department of Health NIMHE etc. the author and/or organisation must be contacted to obtain their permission prior to use and where permission is given the correct attribution must be given.
- Self-medication Policy, with principles, preparation, environmental and clinical risk assessment, four stages of self-medication, monitoring, discharge preparation, prescriptions etc. donated by Sonia Ramdour, Lancashire (7.03)
- Compliance Aids application form, a form to get wards to think about Medidos and other packs instead of thinking that "self-medication = Medidos" (donated by Catherine Tully, 5.01)
- Self-medication policy, a 15-page document and forms from SLAM via Noreen Jakeman (6.01)
- Compliance Aids pharmacy review, from Gloucester 1999
- Pharmacists Medidos check-list, from Gloucester 1999
- Pharmacy dispensing procedures for medidos filling, from Gloucester 1999
- Self-medication Compliance Checklist, forcing people to consider the "wider picture" in self-med, from Liz Kelly, Pharmacy Adviser, Ayrshire and Arran PCT (Jan 2002)
- Self-medication procedure 1 from South-east Essex, for advice on self-medication with risk assessments, consent form and daily monitoring chart for assessing progress (donated by Cathy Willan, June 2003)
- Self-medication procedure 1, a policy for the self administration of medicines from Worcester, for advice on storage, Client Assessment and Monitoring, Recording and stages 1 to 4 of the process (donated by Alan Pollard, June 2003)
- Self-medication practice guidelines, for the self administration of medicines from Leeds, for advice on philosophy and aims, principles of Safe Practice within different Trust settings, 3 phases of self-medication, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and use of compliance aids (donated by Jane Riley and Kate Aveyard, June 2003)