Medication Safety

Resources, guidance and support to assess and improve medication safety culture, strategy and policy within the healthcare system

Support and guidance for MSOs

Medication Safety Officers promote and ensure safe medication practice. Our resources provide practical support, guidance and tips for MSOs and those working alongside or managing MSOs as well as any individual responsible for the safe use of medicines.

The Medication Safety Officer (MSO) role

Understanding the role and responsibilities of the MSO in practice will assist organisations in delivering their medication safety agenda

Practice support for the Medication Safety Officer (MSO)

An infrastructure of support opportunities exists that MSOs should utilise to deliver their role most effectively

Collaboration opportunities to improve medication safety

Practical guidance on effective collaboration opportunities to promote medication safety improvements

Reporting and management of medication incidents and harms

High quality reporting and management of incidents and harms ensures opportunities for learning and improving medication safety

Promoting medication incident reporting

Increased medication incident reporting provides greater opportunities for learning and improving medication safety

Learning from medication incidents and harms

Practical guidance to ensure opportunities to learn from local intelligence, including patient harm are translated into shared local and national learning

Resources to support learning from medication incidents and harms

Organisations should utilise resources to effectively drive improvement based on the learning from incidents, concerns, disputes and claims

Conducting a medication incident investigation

Practical guidance to support those undertaking medication incident investigations

Communication opportunities to improve medication safety

Effective communication allows for timely responses to new and emerging medication risks and the sharing of potential safety solutions.

Using the Medication Safety Update effectively

Effective use provides assurance that an organisation is aware of the most critical medication safety related information, and acts on this to improve safety

Responding to medication safety alerts and notifications

Healthcare professionals responsible for medication safety in their organisation must deliver an appropriate response to safety alerts

Understanding medication safety policy and frameworks

Healthcare professionals delivering the medication safety agenda in their organisation require an understanding of national policy, frameworks and legislation

Events

A forum for individuals to discuss challenges and successes to inform and inspire medication safety initiatives across the system.

MSATS event: medication safety inequalities

27 September 2023Discussion of key current medication safety challenges within healthcare with a focus on medication inequalities; inspiring partnership across the system.

Medication safety across the system: time critical medicines

28 June 2023Discussion of key current medication safety challenges within healthcare with a focus on time critical medicines; inspiring partnership across the system.

Medication safety across the system: opioid safety

29 March 2023Discussion of key current medication safety challenges within healthcare with a focus on opioids. We aim to inspire partnership working across the system.

Search Events