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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (2017) has published guidelines that cover medicines support for adults who are receiving social care in the community. It aims to ensure that people who receive social care are supported to take and look after their medicines effectively and safely at home. Guidance offers advice on assessing if people will require help with managing their medicines, who should provide medicines support, and how health and social care staff should work together.

In 2017, Higher Education England issued advisory guidance for Nursing Associates with regards to the administration of medicines. The guidance plays a key part in ensuring the Nursing Associate is able to work safely and appropriately with regards to medicine and as part of the nursing team.

As well as the various standards, advice and guidance issued, NHS trusts and other organisations will have also prepared their own guidance on how to safely and effectively handle medicines. The healthcare worker should always check and follow this local guidance when providing care that is related to the administration of medicines.

It should also be remembered that there may be a need to consult other sources of guidance concerning specific areas of practice, such as:

 NICE;

 publications by the British National Formulary;

 the Royal College of Nursing;

 the four UK Health and Social Care Departments;

 specialist associations, such as the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV, UK Oncology Forum;

 the World Health Organization.