March 25, 2026
When a resident moves into a care home, returns from hospital or has treatment changed, one of the biggest medicines risks is not usually a dramatic prescribing mistake. It is a simple mismatch between what one service thinks the person is taking and what the next service actually gives. That is why medicines reconciliation matters so much in care homes. It is the process that checks whether the home has the right medicines information at the right time, before a wrong dose, missed medicine or duplicate supply turns into harm.