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This conference focuses on reducing medication errors and resulting harm in hospitals in line with the WHO Medication without Harm Programme goal to reduce the level of severe, avoidable harm related to medications by 50% over the next five years. The conference focuses on prioritising high risk medications and high risk patient groups to enable your interventions to have the highest impact on patient care and reduction in patient harm. The conference aims to bring together clinicians, managers , medication safety officers and leads to understand current national developments, and to debate and discuss key issues and areas they are facing in improving and monitoring medication safety, and reducing medication errors and harm in hospitals.
“More than 237 million medication errors are made every year in England, the avoidable consequences of which cost the NHS upwards of £98 million and more than 1700 lives every year, indicate national estimates… Errors are made at every stage of the process, with over half (54%) made at the point of administration and around 1 in 5 made during prescribing (21%). Dispensing accounts for 16% of the total…. Around 1 in 5 medication errors are made in hospitals… The researchers calculated that “definitely avoidable” medication errors cost the NHS nearly £98.5 million every year and 1708 lives… Effective targeting of finite healthcare resources to reduce medication errors requires understanding of where errors cause the most burden. ”
Benefits of attending. This conference will enable you to:
• Network with colleagues who are working to reduce medication errors
• Understand how to reduce medication error during a pandemic: Covid-19 challenges
• Reflect on the perspective of a patient who has experienced a medication errror
• Understand high risk drugs, high risk parts of the medicines use process and patients with the highest vulnerabilities
• Reflect on how you prioritise interventions in areas that will have the most impact
• Identifying and reducing high-risk prescribing errors in hospital
• Implement a medication error reduction programme and monitor medication safety metrics
• Explore how can an understanding of human factors help to reduce medication error and improve medication safety
• Effectively manage a medication incident investigation and ensure change occurs, including the duty of candour and involving patients
• Reflect on case studies of reducing medication error in high risk areas including insulin, anticoagulants, frail older people and emergency care
• Self assess and reflect on your own practice
• Gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence
