The Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) launched a new patient safety learning campaign, beginning Monday 26 February. This learning campaign uses a real-life patient safety incident to explore inherent risks in pharmacy practice, to support pharmacy professionals to develop and maintain a safer culture. CPPE’s patient safety campaign takes place over six weeks, with … Continue reading CPPE patient safety campaign
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Some of the MSOs on the Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group have been working closely with a collaborative of Academic Health Science Networks in the North West on a project which aims to improve the safety of medication dispensing in primary care by combining human factors and quality improvement sciences. The project uses the ‘Training … Continue reading Safer dispensing
Any community pharmacies in England looking to participate in a safety audit with data collection on the PharmOutcomes system can use the Specialist Pharmacy Service audit of anticoagulant medicines now available. Access anticoagulant audit Members of the Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group helped pilot and develop the audit materials, which are available on the SPS … Continue reading Anticoagulant safety audit
In June 2017, a learning module for community pharmacists on the importance of reporting patient safety incidents was published in Pharmacy Magazine. The module was written with input from the Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group and aims to help pharmacy professionals reflect on how the patient safety incident reports that their teams make contribute to … Continue reading CPD module
NHS Improvement and the MHRA have been reminding healthcare professionals of the fire risks that paraffin-based products can cause, following a number of serious incidents and a recent fatality. When patients are being treated with a paraffin-based emollient product that is covered by a dressing or clothing, there is a danger that smoking or using … Continue reading Paraffin-based products
