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A patient centred and outcome focused approach to optimise medicines use for older people living with frailty

14 December 2016Lelly Oboh, Consultant Pharmacist Care of Older People, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Community Health Services, presented on ‘A patient centred and outcome focused approach to…

A quality improvement project to increase self-administration of medicines in an acute hospital

15 April 2019We aimed to make self-administration more easily available to patients who wanted it. We conducted a failure, modes and effects analysis, collected baseline data on…

ARCHIVED NPSA Alert – Oxygen Safety in Hospitals – 2009

29 September 2009This page forms part of a resource on medication related patient safety alerts issued  by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) between 2002 and 2012…

Advice on the preparation and/or administration of contrast agents supplied under a Patient Group Direction

12 August 2020Questions have been asked as to whether or not it is acceptable for a registered or unregistered healthcare professional (HCP) to prepare and/or administer contrast…

An Explanation of Secondary Patents from National Procurement Pharmacist Specialists Committee (NPPSC)

30 August 2016The procurement specialists in England have formed the National Procurement Pharmacist Specialists Committee (NPPSC) which has produced a number of documents. This paper explains the rationale…

An overview of NHS Procurement of Medicines and Pharmaceutical Products and Services for acute care in the United Kingdom – updated October 2020

22 October 2020The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the current arrangements for the procurement of medicines and pharmaceutical products and services in…

Aseptic Dispensing in NHS Hospitals (The Farwell Report) Department of Health, 1995

2 April 2019

Audit Tools from National Pharmacy Procurement Specialists Committee (NPPSC)

2 September 2016The National Pharmacy Procurement Specialists Committee (NPPSC) have produced a number of audit tools which are available for use locally in trusts.  Trustswho have collected…

Bank and agency staff and Patient Group Directions

25 February 2020The below summarises the advice on the use of PGDs by bank and agency staff working within organisations.

Best Practice Standards for managing medicines shortages in NHS hospitals

2 November 2018Best Practice Standards for managing Medicines Shortages in Secondary Care first published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 2012 has been reviewed and updated. The…