Safer handling of hazardous medicinal products webinar: Frontline pressures, education and culture

The Safer Healthcare and Biosafety Network has launched a joint campaign, Protecting Healthcare Workers: Safer Handling of Hazardous Medicinal Products, to raise awareness of the dangers of occupational exposure to hazardous medicinal products.

This webinar will explore the frontline clinical challenges shaping risk today, as well as the guidance, education and cultural change needed to protect healthcare workers for the future. Hosted by the Safer Healthcare and Biosafety Network (SHBN) with presentations from:

Sam Toland, Nurse Consultant in Cancer Care and Lead SACT Nurse, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust

Alison Simons, Senior Lecturer in Nursing and Midwifery at Birmingham City University

Sam Toland will draw on her experience leading chemotherapy services to examine how the clinical landscape has changed for nurses handling hazardous medicinal products. She will discuss the growth in treatment volumes, the increasing complexity of SACT regimes, and the implications of the growing shift towards subcutaneous administration, a route that eases capacity pressures but introduces new and harder-to-control exposure risks for nursing staff.

Alison Simons will address the policy and practice environment in which these clinical pressures play out. She will discuss the current state of UK guidance on the safe handling of HMPs and what meaningful improvements to education and training look like in practice. She will also consider the barriers that prevent safer practice taking hold across healthcare settings, even where guidance exists.

This session is intended for nurses, pharmacists, oncology healthcare professionals, safety leads, educators and policymakers with an interest in the safe handling of hazardous medicinal products and the systemic changes needed to better protect the healthcare workforce.

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