Jump to content

Search the hub

Showing results for tags 'Medication'.

More search options

  • Search By Tags

    Start to type the tag you want to use, then select from the list.

  • Search By Author

Content Type


Forums

  • All
    • Commissioning, service provision and innovation in health and care
    • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
    • Culture
    • Improving patient safety
    • Investigations, risk management and legal issues
    • Leadership for patient safety
    • Organisations linked to patient safety (UK and beyond)
    • Patient engagement
    • Patient safety in health and care
    • Patient Safety Learning
    • Professionalising patient safety
    • Research, data and insight
    • Miscellaneous

Categories

  • Commissioning, service provision and innovation in health and care
    • Commissioning and funding patient safety
    • Digital health and care service provision
    • Health records and plans
    • Innovation programmes in health and care
    • Climate change/sustainability
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
    • Blogs
    • Data, research and statistics
    • Frontline insights during the pandemic
    • Good practice and useful resources
    • Guidance
    • Mental health
    • Exit strategies
    • Patient recovery
  • Culture
    • Bullying and fear
    • Good practice
    • Occupational health and safety
    • Safety culture programmes
    • Second victim
    • Speak Up Guardians
    • Staff safety
    • Whistle blowing
  • Improving patient safety
    • Clinical governance and audits
    • Design for safety
    • Disasters averted/near misses
    • Equipment and facilities
    • Error traps
    • Health inequalities
    • Human factors (improving human performance in care delivery)
    • Improving systems of care
    • Implementation of improvements
    • International development and humanitarian
    • Safety stories
    • Stories from the front line
    • Workforce and resources
  • Investigations, risk management and legal issues
    • Investigations and complaints
    • Risk management and legal issues
  • Leadership for patient safety
    • Business case for patient safety
    • Boards
    • Clinical leadership
    • Exec teams
    • Inquiries
    • International reports
    • National/Governmental
    • Quality and safety reports
    • Techniques
    • Other
  • Organisations linked to patient safety (UK and beyond)
    • Government and ALB direction and guidance
    • International patient safety
    • Regulators and their regulations
  • Patient engagement
    • Consent and privacy
    • Harmed care patient pathways/post-incident pathways
    • How to engage for patient safety
    • Keeping patients safe
    • Patient-centred care
    • Patient stories
  • Patient safety in health and care
    • Care settings
    • Conditions
    • Diagnosis
    • High risk areas
    • Learning disabilities
    • Medication
    • Mental health
    • Men's health
    • Patient management
    • Social care
    • Transitions of care
    • Women's health
  • Patient Safety Learning
    • Patient Safety Learning campaigns
    • Patient Safety Learning documents
    • Patient Safety Learning news archive
    • 2-minute Tuesdays
    • Patient Safety Learning Annual Conference 2019
    • Patient Safety Learning Annual Conference 2018
    • Patient Safety Learning Awards 2019
    • Patient Safety Learning Interviews
    • Patient Safety Learning webinars
  • Professionalising patient safety
    • Accreditation for patient safety
    • Competency framework
    • Medical students
    • Patient safety standards
    • Training
  • Research, data and insight
    • Data and insight
    • Research
  • Miscellaneous
    • Health care
    • Social care
    • Jobs and voluntary positions
    • Suggested resources

News

  • News

Find results in...

Find results that contain...


Date Created

  • Start
    End

Last updated

  • Start
    End

Filter by number of...

Joined

  • Start

    End

Group

First name

Last name

Country

Join a private group (if appropriate)

About me

Organisation

Role

Found 651 results
  1. Content Article
  2. News Article
    Many pharmacies and physicians are forced to deny patients access to drugs, such as methotrexate, that can be used to help induce an abortion A few weeks after the supreme court’s 24 June decision to overturn the nationwide abortion rights established by Roe v Wade, the pharmacy chain Walgreens sent Annie England Noblin a message, informing her that her monthly prescription of methotrexate was held up. Noblin, a 40-year-old college instructor in rural Missouri, never had trouble getting her monthly prescription of methotrexate for her rheumatoid arthritis. So she went to her local Wa
  3. Content Article
    The AHSN Network Polypharmacy Programme works across three pillars to achieve these outcomes: Population Health Management. Using data (NHS BSA Polypharmacy Comparators) to understand Primary Care Network risks and identify patients for prioritisation for a Structured Medication Review. Education & Training. Investing in clinical leaders – AHSN Polypharmacy Clinical Leads and expert Polypharmacy Trainers and delivery of local Polypharmacy Action Learning Sets (ALSs) to upskill the primary care workforce to be more confident about stopping unnecessary medicines. The ALS model
  4. Content Article
  5. Content Article
  6. Content Article
    2022 ISSUE 1 - Anti-rejection medications: Analysis of reported errors ISSUE 2 - Mitigating Risk for Medication Errors Involving Paxlovid ISSUE 3- Heightened Risk of Methotrexate Toxicity in End-Stage Renal Disease ISSUE 4 - ALERT: Multipronged Strategy Required to Manage Shortage of Sterile Water for Injection ISSUE 5 - Pediatric Medication Errors in the Community: A Multi-Incident Analysis ISSUE 6 - ALERT: Substitution Error with Tranexamic Acid during Spinal Anesthesia ISSUE 7 - Emergency Care Plans Can Save Lives ISSUE 8 - ALERT: Infusion Errors Lead
  7. Content Article
  8. Content Article
  9. News Article
    A leading academic is calling on new Health Secretary Therese Coffey to reconsider rolling out a Covid drug for people with weakened immune systems. Last month the government decided it would not supply Evusheld in the UK. But Dr Lennard Lee, an academic medical oncologist from Oxford University who is backed by more than 120 leading scientists and clinicians, said a rethink was needed. The government said more data was required on the treatment. Evusheld was approved for use in March, but was reviewed after the Omicron variant emerged. The drug's manufacturer AstraZeneca s
  10. Content Article
    Key findings One delay or more in the process of care was identified in 161/420 (38.3%) patients, with recognition, investigations and treatment being the most common. The primary treatment for PE is anticoagulation. It is imperative that this is started as soon as possible. Where there might be a delay to the diagnosis of acute PE anticoagulation should be commenced. In this study the case reviewers reported an avoidable delay in commencing treatment in 90/481 (18.7%) patients. Once PE has been diagnosed an assessment of PE severity needs to be undertaken in order to treat
  11. Content Article
  12. Content Article
    Here are a couple of the cartoons. Download all of the cartoons here.
  13. Content Article
  14. Content Article
  15. Content Article
    Saturday 17 September 2022 marks the fourth annual World Patient Safety Day. This event was established by World Health Organization (WHO) as a day to call for global solidarity and concerted action to improve patient safety. It aims to bring together patients, families, carers, healthcare professionals and policymakers to show their commitment to patient safety. Avoidable harm in health and social care What is patient safety? Simply put, patient safety is concerned with avoiding unintended harm to people during their care and treatment. WHO describes it as follows: “Patient safe
  16. Content Article
  17. Content Article
  18. Content Article
    This good practice guide is one of the key deliverables of the Agency’s medication error initiative and offers guidance on risk minimisation and prevention of medication errors. The guidance includes population-specific aspects in paediatric and elderly patients, as well as guidance on the systematic assessment and prevention of the risk of medication errors throughout the product life-cycle. The key recommendations: The potential for medication errors should be considered at all stages of the product life-cycle but particularly during product development. To minimise the ri
  19. Content Article
  20. Content Article
    Key messages As many as one in ten hospitalisations in OECD countries may be caused by medication related harm. One in five inpatients experience medication-related harms during hospitalisation. Over $54 billion (US Dollars) is spent on medication-related harm in OECD countries (cost from avoidable admissions due to medication related harms plus added length of stay due to preventable hospital-acquired medication-related harms). This report is divided into four main sections: 1. Medication-related harms and errors are not rare events and have significant econ
  21. Content Article
    1 Blog - Managing medicines in care homes – four top tips In this blog, Steve Turner, a qualified nurse specialising in clinical educational and patient engagement, offers up four tips for managing medicines in care home settings, under the following headings: Care Homes must have a medicines policy that is regularly reviewed People must have an accurate listing of their medicines on the day they transfer to the care home People who live in care homes should have at least one multidisciplinary medication review per year Ensure you have safe systems for administer
  22. Event
  23. Event
    until
    The Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group Patient Safety Conference will be held in collaboration with RA-UK. The first session will include engaging lectures around the current work of SALG, and the second session will focus on topical issues in relation to regional anaesthesia safety. There will be a prize session for accepted abstracts, with a poster section and oral presentations. This online conference is being organised by SALG co-chairs, Dr Peter Young from the Association of Anaesthetists, Dr Felicity Platt, Royal College of Anaesthetists and Nat Haslam, Regional Anaesthesia UK The
  24. Content Article
  25. Content Article
×