Specialist Pharmacy Service: Medication safety update

Summary

A resource collating the latest medication safety communications and publications to inform, support and inspire medication safety improvements.

Content

Each month the SPS Medicines Advice team gathers and reviews recent medication safety communications, reports, publications and practice research. The slide deck resource includes items considered pertinent to supporting or delivering against the medication safety agenda.

Items include:

• Medication related safety alerts and notifications.
• Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC) changes.
• Risk minimisation materials.
• Medication shortages and discontinuations.
• Publications and reports.
• Prevention of Future Death Reports (Regulation 28) recommendations.
• Primary research papers on medication safety.