Electronic medication system

Pharma Care eMAR: making medication administration safe, simple & CQC compliant. 

Conatct Village pharmacy today about Pharma Care eMAR and you will always be ready for a CQC inspection.

Village pharmacy will provide everything you need to get started:

• One easy to learn and simple to use system
• All equipment, software and licences provided
• Free custom planning and installation
• Initial training and ongoing support every step of the way
• 7am to 9pm technical support, 365 days a year
• How to guides
• Data governance guidance to ensure NHS IG toolkit compliance

Pharma Care eMAR has many benefits including:

• Supports CQC audit and guidelines
• Makes medication administration safe and simple

Pharma Care eMAR - making medication administration safe

• Personalised resident information:
• On screen photographic identification
• Resident history, allergy warnings and other information
• Full medication profile and managed changes
• Resident changes, transfers and recorded absences
• Barcode scanning
• Ensures drugs and doses are correct and that medication is given to the right person at the right time, every time
• Simple alert and verification system:
• A reduced risk of potential medication errors with pharmacy immediately able to details any changes to prescription, including dose, on a centralised database which can be viewed by both pharmacy and care home
• Missed medications or incomplete rounds
• Missed signatures
• Medication notifications
• Controlled drugs
• Irregular dosing can be managed for example Warfarin or Alendronic acid

Pharma Care eMAR - making medication administration simple

• Pharma Care provides everything your care home needs to get started
• One easy to learn and simple to use system
• All equipment, software and licences provided
• Free custom planning and installation
• Initial training and ongoing support
• 7am to 9pm technical support, 365 days a year
• How to guides
• Data governance guidance to ensure NHS IG toolkit compliance 

Pharma Care eMAR - making medication administration compliant

Pharma Care eMAR gives managers a complete picture of medication administration.

• Reporting suite means care homes are always ready for a CQC inspection
• Real time information and reports at the touch of a button
• Real time access to medication information from your pharmacy
• Reduces risk with medication errors
• No more paperwork or files of MAR sheets
• No illegible handwriting to try and understand
• Provides an audit trail for managers and accountability for all staff
• Manager’s dashboard
• Check the progress of rounds as they happen
• Track medication administration by nurse, carer or resident
• Spot missed medications, signatures and other errors fast and deal with them quickly
• Manage stock and inventory of medications in real-time
• Print off up to date eMAR sheets for urgent hospital admissions or discharge
• Managers feel in control of medication administration in their home
• Allows managers to monitor staff performance and identify ways of improving their care home service
• Pharma Care eMAR helps care staff spend more quality time with residents thanks to
• Time taken for medication check-in process reduced by up to 50% (Pharma Care data)
• More efficient medication rounds
• Better medication stock control
• Up to the minute information

Each individual medication is identified through a patient specific barcode applied in pharmacy. It can then be tracked at all stages from checking in at the care home to administration or even when unused items are disposed of or returned to the pharmacy.

As well as making the medication administration process more efficient, Pharma Care eMAR also reduces medication administration errors, making the whole process safe, simple and compliant. CQC inspections are much easier with Pharma Care eMAR, providing peace of mind that all patient medication has been administered safely through easy to follow processes for all staff. Reliable data verifies that everyone receives the right medication and dose at the right time, every time.

Looking after your data

Our expert knowledge in this area means your data will always be managed and stored safely:

• Our eMAR is compliant with the NHS IG Toolkit
• Data is stored in a controlled and safe way, 100% of the time
• Our rigorous approach to information governance means data is never compromised
• Back up servers ensure you always have business continuity without any risk to privacy
• Our guidance ensures that you will be compliant with NHS IG Toolkit

Case study

Situated in Leicester Cherrytree Care home chose to automate their medication management processes with Pharma Care eMAR in 2016 and the team there haven’t looked back since. Since introducing the system, staff have seen a number of benefits to safety, simplicity and compliance in their care home.

Cherytree prides itself on providing a high level of care to its 40 residents and the way they manage residents’ medication is no exception. Staff are now more confident as they make their drug rounds – safe in the knowledge that residents are getting the right medication at the right time. Following the initial training, the system is now part of their daily routine.

Home manager explained, “After the initial training, we all agreed that we should introduce Pharma Care eMAR across the entire group of homes as the benefits were clear to see.”

They quickly made significant savings on staff administration time, checking drugs in and management time in dealing with queries and CQC inspections. Home manager said, “Now we have Pharma Care eMAR I have everything I need at the touch of a button from up to the minute information on drug rounds to missed or refused medicines.”

Pharma Care eMAR has significantly cut the time the Home manager and the team spend checking in drugs when they arrive from the pharmacy thanks to how simple Pharma Care eMAR makes processing new drugs. The time it takes to process new drugs has been cut by around 50% - time that can now be spent with residents instead. Not only that, they are confident that they can be ready for any inspection quickly and accurately. Home manager added “We don’t have lots of paper MAR sheets to search through any more and I have a complete picture of medication management and administration 24 hours a day.”