Medicines Management: An overview for nursing (October 2020)

Ward-Patient eQMS with Error Recovery Protocols.4.pdf

Dear Claire

Thank you for posting this article. On page 5:

• The right medicine for the right patient and the right time.

Fine words but where is the solution. There is no mention of error recovery protocols, compelling alarms reducing error by a factor of 10,000 or a quality management system which includes acknowledgement by the patient receiving the correct barcode read medicine against the care-plan software checklist.

This is standard industrial H&S. Umpteen NHS departments over the years have no idea of what I am talking about. One shining light is PSL Leader Steve Turner.

Kill the AE's not 2.6 million patients annually. Wake up NHS this is your chance to trial a world beating eQMS protecting patient healthcare worker and reducing error to the point WB is not needed just a software tweek.

Kindest Regards Derek.

Using this system injecting swab into the patient is impossible. (Indistinct chlorohexidine Rob Hackett).