Support and guidance for medication safety leaders
Resources to support organisational Medication Safety Officers (MSO) and other medication safety leaders.
- Responding to medication safety alerts and notifications
- Using the Medication Safety Update effectively
- Responding to medication incidents
- 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
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
- Medication safety
- 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.
- Preventing parenteral nutrition rapid over-infusion in babies
- Prescribing and administering intravenous paracetamol safely
- Use of injectable medicines for multiple doses
- 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
- 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
Time critical medicines
Resources for healthcare professionals which provide guidance and practical strategies for improving the safe use of Time Critical Medicines (TCMs).
- Improving the safe use of time critical medicines
- Supporting safe use of adrenal crisis emergency management kits
- Managing the risk of confusion between insulin products
- Benztropine injection for acute dystonic reactions
- Safety considerations when switching insulin products
- Embedding the safer use of insulin
- Safer use of time critical medicines programme
- Developing insulin safety across a system
- Defining time critical medicines
- Understanding time critical medicines to support improvement
- Managing medicines safely in clinical areas
- Ensuring time critical use of rasburicase
- Managing the risk of confusion between injectable penicillin salts
- Managing risks associated with oxytocin infusions during labour
- Managing the risks associated with patients prescribed clozapine
- Clinical considerations for patients prescribed clozapine
Managing specific medicines-related risks
Guidance and practical strategies for the safer use of specific medicines.
- Managing the risks of using liquid oral phenobarbital
- Developing direct oral anticoagulant safety across a system
- Managing fire risk with emollients and other skin products
- Managing the risk of confusion between injectable iron products
- Supporting safe use of adrenal crisis emergency management kits
- Prescribing and administering intravenous paracetamol safely
- Managing the risk of confusion between insulin products
- Benztropine injection for acute dystonic reactions
- Safety considerations when switching 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
- Using potassium permanganate for skin conditions or wound care
- Managing the risk of confusion between injectable penicillin salts
- Managing risks associated with oxytocin infusions during labour
- Managing the risks associated with patients prescribed clozapine
- Clinical considerations for patients prescribed clozapine
- Managing risks of betamethasone soluble tablets used as mouthwash
- Safety considerations when using Vitamin D
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.