Patient Safety Professional Standards: Responding to Patient Safety Incidents

Summary

These patient safety professional standards aim to support pharmacists when responding to patient safety incidents. They describe good practice and provide a broad framework for continually improving services, shaping future services and roles and delivering high-quality care across all settings and sectors.

They have been developed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK and Pharmacy Forum NI, with the support of an expert steering group and public consultation.

Pharmacists, pharmacist prescribers, pharmacy technicians and the wider pharmacy team across the United Kingdom will find these standards useful. They may also be of interest to the public, to people who use pharmacy and healthcare services, other healthcare professionals working with pharmacy teams, regulators and commissioners of pharmacy services.