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 Medicines
Partnership has worked with the Norah Fry Centre
to develop three workbooks about medications for
people with learning disabilities and their carers
to use together. You can download them here.
'My medication'
is a place for people to write down all the things
they need to know about each medication they take.
Download 'My medication' by clicking on the link
at the bottom of this page.
'All my medications'
is a place for people to write down a list of all
the medications they take and when and how they
take them. Download 'All my medications'
by clicking on the link at the bottom of this page.
'How to make
choices about taking medication' helps people
to think about making decisions about starting
on a medication they have been offered and
to weigh up the pros and cons. Download
'How to make choices about medication' by clicking
on the link at the bottom of this page.
When they have
been filled in, the booklets can form part of a
person's Health Action Plan if they have one, so
that they are always available for reference.
You are welcome to make photocopies of the booklets
or to print them out as many times as you like for
non-commercial purposes.
We would like
to know what you think about the booklets when you
have read and used them so that we can make them
better. Please would you fill
in our online questionnaire to let us know what
you think.
If you have
any problems downloading the booklets, please contact
us on 020 7572 2474.
The booklets
were developed by the Medication Matters project.
This was a research project carried out by the Norah
Fry Research Centre at the University of Bristol
in partnership with Home Farm Trust and Aspects
and Milestones Trust between July 2002 and November
2004.
You can read more about the project
on the Norah
Fry Centre website or on the Medicines
Partnership website by clicking here.
Other useful resources
The Association for Real Change (ARC) carried out a
Department of Health funded project to develop training
and guidance for organisations providing services for
people who have a learning disability called 'Managing
medication in learning disability social care settings'.
The work has consulted widely within the sector with
organisations, regulators, medical professionals, trainers
and others and the final documents are mapped to the
relevant national occupational standards, regulations
and sector specific training programmes.
The
outcome of the project has been to develop a brief
'checklist' for organisations, managers/seniors
and staff regarding medication, guidance for
organisations and a training framework for staff.
These documents are available to download free on
the ARC
website.
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