Pharmacy Magazine: Patient safety in community pharmacy (June 2017)

Summary

This is part of a continued professional development (CPD) module series for community pharmacy technicians. This module aims to help pharmacists and their teams recognise the importance of reporting patient safety incidents.

Content

This module provides principles that community pharmacy teams can embed into their practice and use when reporting and learning from patient safety incidents.

It aims to help pharmacy technicians:

• appreciate the importance of reporting patient safety incidents
• understand how sharing insights after something goes wrong can create learning opportunities for other pharmacy teams
• champion the important role that community pharmacy team members play in continuous improvement of the services they offer.