The Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group (PSG) conducted a survey on patient safety culture in Autumn 2021 and invited pharmacy staff from across the UK to participate. This anonymous survey sought to understand patient safety practice from the perspective of frontline pharmacy teams. A similar survey was carried out by the Patient Safety Group in … Continue reading Safety culture survey 2021
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The Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group are bidding a fond farewell to their current Chair Janice Perkins the former Pharmacy Superintendent at Well Pharmacy. They are however, delighted to announce that Victoria Steele, Superintendent Pharmacist at LloydsPharmacy and current Vice-Chair of the group, will take on the role. The Patient Safety Group are also really … Continue reading Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group welcome new Chair
The Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group is delighted to be hosting a virtual conference, which we pleased to invite colleagues to attend. The conference will be held on Wednesday 30th June, between 2.00pm and 4.30pm. The conference will be an opportunity to explore: Key learnings and collaborative work from the pandemicHow community pharmacies adapted to … Continue reading Patient Safety Group Virtual Conference
The Patient Safety Group was pleased to welcome Graham Prestwich from "Me and My Medicines", to a recent meeting. "Me and My Medicines" is a campaign led by patients and supported by clinical staff to help people raise concerns and use their medicines better. The campaign encourages patients, families and carers to ask questions about their … Continue reading Me and my medicines
The Patient Safety Group was delighted to welcome Andy Fox from Medicines for Children, to a recent meeting. The project which is jointly run by the Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health (RCPCH) WellChild and the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG), provides practical and accurate information on paediatric medicines, addressing the issues which … Continue reading Medicines for Children
Pharmacy teams are less likely to be afraid of reporting dispensing errors since the legal defence for dispensing errors was introduced last April, the findings of a new survey published today (18 December) suggests. The Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group (PSG) conducted a survey on patient safety culture in April and May 2019, and invited … Continue reading Safety culture survey 2019
Real Time Exemption Checking (RTEC) lets a pharmacy team digitally check to see if a patient is eligible for free prescriptions (because they hold specific exemptions, for example based on age, income, pregnancy or maternity within the previous 12 months). The system will not provide the reason for the exemption, rather it will return an “unknown” or … Continue reading Real time exemption checking
The Patient Safety Group considers everything that influences the provision of safe and effective care. Importantly, this includes the health and wellbeing of staff, which is a priority for all community pharmacy owners. With this in mind, the Patient Safety Group has developed ten top tips guidance to support you to manage wellbeing in the … Continue reading Wellbeing in the pharmacy
The Patients Association has launched its Care Home Charter to improve medication practices for people living in care homes across the UK. The charter, which was developed in collaboration and is supported by a range of organisations including the Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group, aims to help support residents living in care homes to be … Continue reading Patients Association launches Care Home Charter
The Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group has created a tool to outline the medicines dispensing process and help explain the checks which are built into this process to support safe dispensing of prescription medicines. The tool encourages pharmacy teams to think about the patient behind the prescription at every stage of the dispensing process; from … Continue reading Safe dispensing of prescription medicines
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