Care Homes
Benefits of Biodose in Care Homes:
- The world’s first Total Medication Management System (Tomms)
- The only system capable of dealing with solid oral and liquid medications.
- Individually sealed and individually removable tamper-evident pods.
- 28-pod trays with drug and patient information printed on EVERY pod.
- Aids patient compliance and provides maximum accountability.
- Built in Biocote protection – helps prevent MRSA.
- MAR (medication administration records) chart with patient and drug photographs.
- PIC (patient information chart) with patient and drug photographs.
In the care home environment Biodose Total Medication Management provided by Tomms Pharmacy helps improve drug administration management, helping care homes deliver higher standards of care, whilst ensuring regulatory compliance.
Biodose is the new replacement for the outdated MDS, with a number of new important advances. The Biodose system provides a single system for administering solid oral tablets and capsules, together with liquid medications*, making Biodose the first system capable of delivering a complete solution to drug administration within the care home environment.
Biodose is delivered in convenient Patient Packs containing a tray with 28 individual tamper-evident medicine pods. Every pod is pre-sealed into the tray and can be easily removed from the tray without affecting the individual tamper-evident seal.
The tray contains patient information with the option of an individual photograph, plus drug detail information and Tomms Pharmacy name. Each individual pod contains detailed information including patient name, date, time of day and details of each drug.
The tamper evident seals used on each pod ensure that the medication is kept securely within the pod and ensures liquids do not leak, even if the tray is accidentally turned upside down.
Once the tamper proof seal has been pealed back, it will not stick down again, ensuring the drugs within the pod are the same as what Tomms Pharmacy intended. Therefore you can be a sure that at the point of administration, the right drugs are being administered. This provides extra security and accountability needed in the care home setting.
Biodose trays include the facility to include patient pictures, temporary staff will be confident in knowing that the right person receives the right drugs.
Right from the moment that the pod seal is peeled back, drugs can be administered directly from the pod, making liquid administration very easy and removing the need for medication cups.
For the first time ever and through Tomms Pharmacy care homes can introduce Biodose to improve drug administration and further benefit from the Biodose’s built in Biocote protection helping to prevent MRSA.