House of Lords Debate - Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review: Sodium Valproate (2 March 2021)

This long standing  #patientsafety issue needs more than 'measures ...to limit the prescribing of this drug' that are being implemented.

In my view, one of the first jobs for the Patient Safety Commissioner should be to look at what is needed nationally to improve standards and competency in #prescribing, and also to increase #patient involvement in prescribing decisions. To make the mantra  'no decision about me without me', a reality, in a way that can be measured through a reduction in drug related harm.

Since the demise of the National Prescribing Centre there is no national body that covers the prescribing practice, competence and learning across disciplines. I believe #patients are suffering as a result.