Analysis of health policy regarding medication management in residential care sector

Running head:HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING
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Title
Analysis of health policy regarding medication management in residential care sector.

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Executive Summary
This paper has provided an analysis of the policy “guiding principles for the medication
management in residential care facilities” issued by the Australian government, Department of
Health and Ageing. This paper had pointed out a rationale for why this policy was needed with
regards to residential aged care. The growing number of the adverse events and polypharmacy in
residential aged care has led to this policy. While the policy contains many useful guidelines,
there were some barriers that could restrict the continuation of this policies, like lack of
appropriate stakeholders, availability of accurate data on medication errors in residential aged
care or clear incident reports that can give a clear idea about the number of misses that had
occurred (Storms, Marquet, Aertgeerts&Claes, 2017). Reviewing of all the procedures, a clear
instruction to the residents. Proper medication administration guidelines and prompt reporting of
near misses is required for preventing medication errors.

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CONTENTS
Title..................................................................................................................................................4
Crtique of the brief...........................................................................................................................4
Background of the Health policy.................................................................................................4
Rationale behind this heath policy issue......................................................................................4
Evaluation of challenges to address the issue..............................................................................6
Identification of the possible options for the decision maker......................................................8
Recommendations for the policy.................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................11