Support and guidance for medication safety leaders
Resources to support organisational Medication Safety Officers (MSO) and other medication safety leaders.
- Collaboration opportunities to improve medication safety
- Learning from medication safety events
- Practice support for the Medication Safety Officer (MSO)
- Embedding medication safety improvement within an organisation
- The Medication Safety Officer (MSO) role
- Reporting and management of medication safety events
- Using the Medication Safety Update effectively
- Responding to medication safety alerts and notifications
- Understanding medication safety policy and frameworks
- Conducting a medication incident investigation
Improving medication safety across the system (MSATS)
Guidance and practical strategies for healthcare professionals to promote medication safety improvements across systems.
- Developing Medication Safety Across The System (MSATS)
- Developing insulin safety across a system
- Developing opioid safety across a system
- Addressing medication safety inequalities across the system
- Managing complexities of medication use across care boundaries
- MSATS – Safe use of valproate
- MSATS – Safe Use of DOACs
- MSATS – Safe use of medicines in palliative and end of life care
Organisational policy and strategy
Resources which support the development and governance of organisational policy and strategy.
- Self-administration of medicines
- Implementing self-administration of medicines
- Assessment and storage of medicines for self-administration
- Risk assessing transcribing for administration
- Worked example of assessing the risk of transcribing
- Understanding when a check adds value to medication processes
- Safe management of therapeutic drug monitoring
- Preventing errors on the medicine journey
- Understanding why temperature management is important for medicines storage
- Including medicines with Risk Minimisation Measures (RMM) in PGDs
- Patient Group Directions and legal mechanisms
Administration
Guidance and good practice examples to support the safe administration of medicines.
- Implementing self-administration of medicines
- Managing the risks of using effervescent tablets in children
- Assessing injectables for enteral administration
- Managing medicines safely in clinical areas
- Multiple Use of Injectable Medicines in Clinical Areas
- Including medicines with Risk Minimisation Measures (RMM) in PGDs
- Minimising risks associated with administration of injectable iron
- Worked example of assessing the risk of transcribing
- Risk assessing transcribing for administration
- Assessment and storage of medicines for self-administration
- Self-administration of medicines
- Giving intermittent intravenous infusions by gravity in adults
- Using intravenous paracetamol preparations safely in paediatrics
- Preventing parenteral nutrition rapid over-infusion in babies
Time critical medicines
Resources for healthcare professionals which provide guidance and practical strategies for improving the safe use of Time Critical Medicines (TCMs).
- Benztropine injection for acute dystonic reactions
- Safety considerations when switching insulin products
- Managing the risk of confusion between insulin products
- Embedding the safer use of insulin
- Safer use of time critical medicines programme
- Defining time critical medicines
- Improving the safe use of time critical medicines
- Understanding time critical medicines to support improvement
- Ensuring time critical use of rasburicase
Managing specific medicines-related risks
Guidance and practical strategies for the safer use of specific medicines.
- Benztropine injection for acute dystonic reactions
- Safety considerations when switching insulin products
- Managing the risk of confusion between insulin products
- Embedding the safer use of insulin
- Developing insulin safety across a system
- Supporting lithium safety across the system
- Ensuring the safe use of amphotericin B injection
- Ensuring time critical use of rasburicase
- Minimising risks associated with administration of injectable iron
- Managing the risk of confusion between injectable iron products
- Using potassium permanganate for skin conditions or wound care
- Supporting safe use of adrenal crisis emergency management kits
- Managing the risk of confusion between injectable penicillin salts
- Managing risks associated with oxytocin infusions during labour
- Managing reactions to dental local anaesthetic injections
- Managing the risks associated with patients prescribed clozapine
- Clinical considerations for patients prescribed clozapine
- Managing risks of betamethasone soluble tablets used as mouthwash
- Using intravenous paracetamol preparations safely in paediatrics
- Safety considerations when using Vitamin D
- Managing the risks of using liquid oral phenobarbital
Safe procurement
Purchasing and procurement guidance supporting the safer use of medicines.
Patient-held resources
Signposting to available resources which support individuals using high-risk medicines.
Webinars
Recordings of previous webinars aimed at healthcare professionals, working in any sector with a role or passion for medication safety or involved in medicines use.