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This conference focuses on prioritising high risk medications and high risk patient groups to enable your interventions to have the highest impact on patient care and reduction in patient harm. The conference which aims to bring together clinicians and pharmacists, managers, and medication safety officers and leads will reflect on medication safety challenges, understand current national developments, and to debate and discuss key issues and areas they are facing in improving and monitoring medication safety, and reducing medication errors and harm in hospitals. The conference will also update delegates on the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and implications for medication safety incident investigation
The total annual number of undetected drug errors was estimated to affect around 1.8 million prescription items at transitions of care in hospitals in England. Of these, over half (52%) happened when patients were admitted to hospital, and 44% when they were discharged; 3% occurred during transfers from one hospital to another; and 1% occurred during transfers within the same hospital. These errors were estimated to affect around 380,000 episodes of patient care, resulting in avoidable harms to 31,500 patients, 36,500 additional bed days at a cost of around £17.8 million to the NHS, and more than 40 deaths.
The BMJ, Quality & Safety, March 2024
Last year 34,000 medication errors were made, with 21 incidents leading to patient death, and a further 27 leading to serious harm … 5,500 patients were damaged in some way by a mistake with their prescription – for example by being given the wrong medication, wrong dosage, or not being supplied with the medication when it was needed.
Digital Health, April 2024
The benefits of attending are that this conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to reduce medication errors
Understand how to reduce medication errors
Reflect on the perspective of a patient who has lived experience of the human impact of medication errors
Understand high risk drugs, high risk parts of the medicines use process and patients with the highest vulnerabilities
Update your knowledge on the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and implications for medication error investigation
Reflect on how you prioritise interventions in areas that will have the most impact
Identifying and reducing high-risk prescribing errors in hospital
Explore how can an understanding of human factors help to reduce medication error and improve medication safety
Reflect on medication errors and ePrescribing including the role of clinical decision support and new potential errors that can emerge
Effectively manage a medication incident investigation, including involving patients and the legal aspects, to ensure change occurs
Reflect on case studies with the aim of reducing medication error in high risk areas
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
