Sometimes medication must be given covertly. Here are our recommendations on how to record this on Care Control.

We would first advise that medication given covertly is created as a separate medication, and labelled accordingly. For example Paracetamol (Given Covertly), as oppose to using the existing medication on the system. This helps with recording integrity so that the data shows what is and what isn’t given covertly.

Similarly, in the medication purpose, we would recommend adding the method in which this is done. For example given in yoghurt.

Finally, we would recommend that information is added to the service users Care Plan / Care Review and any doctors notes about how and why the medication is given covertly.

Here is our guide on creating new medication:

Adding a new medication onto eMAR (ccacademy.co.uk)

If you would like to discuss this further, or would like some advice on setting this up, please contact our support team.