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Content ArticleOnline healthcare services and apps can help people take more control of their health, by getting access to care easily and when it suits them. This guidance for patients aims to help patients keep themselves safe when using online health services. Produced by a collaboration of UK health organisations, it includes six top tips for accessing healthcare online: Check if the online healthcare service and healthcare professionals working there are registered with UK regulators Ask questions about how the service works Answer questions honestly about your health and medical history Find out your options for treatment and how to take any medicines you’re prescribed Expect to be asked for consent for information to be shared with other healthcare professionals involved in your care Check what after-care you will receive
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This year, the World Health Organisation’s annual World Patient Safety Day on 17 September 2022 will focus on medication safety, promoting safe medication practices to prevent medication errors and reducing medication-related harm. Patient Safety Learning has pulled together some useful resources from the hub about different aspects of medication safety - here we list six helpful reads related to medication safety in hospital settings. -
Content ArticleThe Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) has produced a selection of resources and guidance to help people use medicines safely. It offers information about the Know, Check, Ask campaign, encouraging members of the public to: Know your medicines and keep a list Check that you're using the right medicine the right way Ask your health professional if you're unsure The page also includes videos about: how to use the My medicines list tool designed to ensure patients and healthcare professionals know which medications and doses the patient should be taking. 5 moments for medication safety, a campaign linked to the World Health Organizations' WHO Medsafe app.
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EventuntilThe Patient Academy for Innovation and Research (PAIR), Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) and DakshamA Health are celebrating World Patient Safety Day, with a webinar on the theme of "Role of stakeholders in GPSAP in the country's context to ensure medication safety". This event will bring all the stakeholders together to discuss their roles in ensuring medication safety and reducing medication-related harm through strengthening systems and practices of medication use, making the process of medication safer and free from harm and galvanizing action on the challenge by calling on all stakeholders to prioritize medication safety and address unsafe practices and system weaknesses. The objectives of World Patient Safety Day 2022 by WHO are - RAISE global awareness of the high burden of medication-related harm due to medication errors and unsafe practices, and ADVOCATE urgent action to improve medication safety. ENGAGE key stakeholders and partners in the efforts to prevent medication errors and reduce medication-related harm. EMPOWER patients and families to be actively involved in the safe use of medication. SCALE UP implementation of the WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm. Register for the webinar The webinar will take place at 3.00-4.30 IST (10.30am-12pm BST)
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This is part of our series of Patient Safety Spotlight interviews, where we talk to people working for patient safety about their role and what motivates them. Angela talks to us about how her role enables her to promote collaboration for patient safety between different layers of the healthcare system. She also tells us about how Northern Ireland is using World Patient Safety Day 2022 to help the public and healthcare staff understand how they can contribute to medication safety. -
Content ArticleThis article and video tell the story of Rihan Neupane, a baby born prematurely in Dhapasi, Nepal, who was left in a vegetative state following a series of medical errors including a missed diagnosis of meningitis. His parents had chosen a private international hospital for their maternity care, but were let down by a series of medical errors including Rihan being mistakenly given a massive paracetamol overdose. Although external hospital safety inspectors found the hospital negligent on many counts, the hospital continued to deny any wrongdoing or responsibility for Rihan's condition. Rihan's father Sanjeev Neupane talks about his family's experience in the embedded video.
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This blog provides an overview of a discussion at a Patient Safety Management Network (PSMN) meeting on 26 August 2022. The discussion considered the use of two different system-based approaches for learning from patient safety incidents recommended by the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). The PSMN is an informal voluntary network for patient safety managers. Created by and for patient safety managers, it provides a weekly drop-in session with guests to talk through issues of importance, offer peer support and create a safe space for discussion. You can find out more about the network here -
EventuntilMedication-related harm accounts for up to half of the overall preventable harm in medical care. Patients in low- and middle-income countries are twice more likely to experience preventable medication harm than patients in high-income countries. Considering this huge burden of harm, “Medication Safety” has been selected as the theme for World Patient Safety Day 2022. To commemorate the day, WHO is organizing a Global Virtual Event, calling on all stakeholders to join efforts globally for “Medication Without Harm”. During the event, stakeholders will discuss medication safety issues within the strategic framework of the WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm, including 1) Patients and the public, 2) Health and care workers, 3) Medicines, and 4) Systems and practices of medication. Interpretations will be available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Register for the webinar Save the date-flyer_Global Virtual Event WPSD 2022_15 September 2022.pdf
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Medication safety in nursing home patients (5 July 2022)
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Medication safety has long been a major issue in long-term social care due to the number of medications taken by many older people. This editorial in BMJ Quality & Safety looks at why managing medications in care homes is so complex and highlights potential interventions to improve medication safety in long-term care settings. -
EventTo mark the annual World Patient Safety Day, three organisations - COHSASA of South Africa, AfiHQSA of Ghana and C-CARE (IHK) of Uganda - are collaborating to bring you the latest thinking across Africa regarding 'Medication without harm', the theme for WHO's Third Global Patient Safety Challenge. The Challenge aims to reduce the global burden of iatrogenic medication-related harm by 50% within five years. Join us to hear new ideas, visions and solutions to address medication-related adverse events which cause untold death and suffering around the world. Register for the meeting FINAL INVITE FOR WPSD WEBINAR.pdf
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HSE Ireland - My Medicines List leaflet (January 2020)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Medication
This leaflet produced by the Irish Health Services Executive (HSE) provides a central place for patients to record information about their medications. It acts as a reference point for patients to use when discussing their medications with a healthcare professional and includes a reminder of the Know, Check, Ask campaign, aimed at reducing medication errors in the community. -
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Unsafe medication practices and medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in healthcare systems across the world. In recognition of this, in 2017 the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Third WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm, aimed at improving medication safety. This article provides information and resources related to the Challenge. -
Content ArticleThis recording is part of a series of webinars by the Patient Academy for Innovation and Research (PAIR Academy), The International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO) and Dakshama Health, to introduce the Strategic Framework of the World Health Organization's Global Patient Safety Challenge - Medication Without Harm. The theme of this sixth webinar is "Medication Safety in Polypharmacy and Transitions of Care."
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Content ArticleThis report by the consultancy firm Deloitte looks at patient safety across biopharmaceutical (biopharma) value chains, arguing that change is needed to make medications safer for patients and add value to pharmaceutical products. The authors highlight that there is currently great potential for strategies to increase safety, improve equity and enhance patient engagement and experience. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and data analytics, combined with increased incidence of adverse event reports (AERs) and increasing expectation of more personalised, preventative, predictive and participatory (4P) medicine, present an opportunity to improve pharmacovigilance.
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Content ArticleThis blog on the NHS England website looks at how Written Medicine, a service that provides bilingual medication information, is helping to reduce healthcare inequalities and medical errors in London. Written Medicine’s software allows pharmacies and hospitals to translate and print medication information, instructions and warnings. Drawn from a dataset of 3,500 phrases, printed labels are available in fifteen different languages. The bilingual labels help patients take ownership of their treatment, giving them a better understanding of how to take their prescribed medication. The solution is helping to reduce errors, improve medication adherence and enhance patient safety and experience. The blog also looks at the experience of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) using Written Medicine. A 2019 audit showed that the service was valued by patients and highly successful in increasing medication adherence through empowering patients.
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News ArticleA shortage of some medicines is putting patients at risk, pharmacists have warned. A poll of 1,562 UK pharmacists for the Pharmaceutical Journal found more than half (54%) believed patients had been put at risk in the past six months due to shortages. A number of patients have been facing difficulties accessing some medicines in recent months, sometimes having to go to multiple pharmacies to find their prescription or needing to go back to their GP to be prescribed an alternative. Since June, the government has issued a number of "medicine supply notifications", which highlight shortages. Some of these include: pain relief drugs used in childbirth; mouth ulcer medication; migraine treatment; an antihistamine; a drug used by prostate cancer and endomitosis patients; an antipsychotic drug used among bipolar disorder and schizophrenia patients; a type of inhaler and a certain brand of insulin. Read full story Source Sky News, 11August 2022
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EventuntilAs this year's theme of World Patient Safety Day 2022 is "Medication safety" and increasing awareness about safe medication usage in clinical practice, the Peerless Hospital, Kolkata, India, are organising a one day conference " MediSafeCon" dedicated to increasing awareness about patient safety and medication safety in clinical practice among pharmacists, nurses and doctors. The following sessions by leading doctors, pharmacists, nurses and medicolegal experts of West Bengal and India: 1. Medication safety issues in Critical Care practice 2. Medication safety issues in Pediatric practice 3. Medication safety issues in Oncology practice 4. Medication safety issues in Gastroenterology practice 5. Medication safety issues in Surgical practice 6. Medication safety issues in Domiciliary care 7. Medication safety issues in Telemedicine services 8. Medication errors and Medicolegal implications. Information brochure Medisafecon_brochure.pdf
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Content ArticleIn this episode of the Driving Insights to Action podcast, patient safety advocates Soojin Jun and Sue Sheridan talk about the role of the World Health Organization's Global Patient Safety Action Plan in helping reduce medication errors in healthcare. They also share their personal experiences of family members' deaths as a result of avoidable harm in healthcare.
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WHO: World Patient Safety Day 2022
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in WHO
This year World Patient Safety Day, due to take place on Saturday 17 September 2022, will focus on medication safety, promoting safe medication practices to prevent medication errors and reducing medication-related harm. This page links to resources to mark World Patient Safety Day from the official World Health Organization (WHO) website.- Posted
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Content ArticlePatients recovering from an episode in an intensive care unit (ICU) frequently experience medication errors on transition to the hospital ward. This systematic review in BMJ Quality & Safety aimed to examine the impact of medication-related interventions on medication and patient outcomes on transition from adult ICU settings and identify barriers and facilitators to implementation.
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Content ArticleMedication errors are a common issue within the care home sector, impacting on the health and wellbeing of residents as well as creating challenges for care home staff and managers. This report addresses the issue of medication safety in care homes in England. Through intense engagement with a representative sample of care homes and stakeholders involving an electronic survey, workshops and conversations, Patient Safety Collaboratives have sought to understand the reasons for medication errors and how these could be avoided in the future.
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Questions in the House of Commons on medication safety (21 June 2022)
Mark Hughes posted an article in Medication
Unsafe medication practices and medication errors are a leading cause of avoidable harm in healthcare and are the focus of this year’s World Patient Safety Day on 17 September 2022. This article highlights two written questions tabled in the House of Commons asking about medication safety issues in the UK and the Government’s responses. -
Content ArticleThis report by the Access to Medicine Foundation looks at how the pharmaceuticals industry can help tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by improving access to medicines. It sets out how the unstable antibiotic market, with its fragile supply chains and tough market conditions, hinders the development of robust models that would allow medications to be more easily distributed and accessed. It features six case studies where companies and their partners are using a combination of access strategies to cut through the complexity and address access at a local level.
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Content ArticleThis review, published in official journal of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance, Drug Safety, is aimed at determining the overall incidence, severity and preventability of medication-related hospital admissions in Australia. In its conclusions, the authors estimate that 250,000 hospital admissions in Australia are medication-related, with an annual cost of AUD$1.4 billion to the healthcare system, and that two-thirds of medication-related hospital admissions are potentially preventable.
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EventuntilThe International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO) and Patient Academy for Innovation and Research (PAIR Academy) in partnership with Dakshama Health are launching a series of webinars to introduce the Strategic Framework of the Global Patient Safety Challenge - Medication Without Harm. The 4th webinar of the medication without harm webinar series is scheduled on June 18th, 2022, from 11:30 to 12:30 GMT. The theme is "Importance of Systems and Safe Medication Practices for patient safety”. This webinar will emphasize on the "Importance of Systems and Safe Medication Practices for patient safety ", within WHO’s Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm, to improve medication safety. The patient safety series of webinars will focus on the strategic framework of the Global Patient Safety Challenge, which depicts the four domains of the challenge: patients and the public, health care professionals, medicine, and systems and practices of medication, and the three key action areas—namely polypharmacy, high-risk situations, and transitions of care, The series of webinars will share challenges, technical strategies, tools, and patient experiences in implementing the Strategic Framework of the Global Patient Safety Challenge to reduce medication-related harm. Register for the webinar
