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Monitoring & Reducing Medication Errors: High Risk Medicines & Patient Groups

Wed, 24 Apr 2024

Virtual, Online

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This conference focuses on prioritising high risk medications and high risk patient groups to enable your interventions to have the highest impact on patient care and reduction in patient harm. The conference which aims to bring together clinicians and pharmacists, managers, and medication safety officers and leads will reflect on medication safety challenges, understand current national developments, and to debate and discuss key issues and areas they are facing in improving and monitoring medication safety, and reducing medication errors and harm in hospitals.  The conference will also update delegates on the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and implications for medication safety incident investigation

“Medication errors are any Patient Safety Incidents (PSI) where there has been an error in the process of prescribing, preparing, dispensing, administering and monitoring or providing advice on medicines. The NHS Patient Safety Strategy has a strategic focus on medication errors, with the Medicines Safety Improvement Programme addressing the most important causes of severe harm associated with medicines. The programme aims to reduce severe avoidable medication-related harm by 50% by March 2024”

NHS Resolution March 2022

“Medicines safety is a priority for CQC and improving safety in NHS trusts is a crucial aspect of the wider medicines’ safety agenda. An estimated 237 million medication errors occur in the NHS in England every year.”

Care Quality Commission 2022

“When errors occur in prescribing high-risk medications for older patients with multiple medical problems, there is a significant risk of serious harm. High-risk medicines are those which risk significant patient harm or death when used in error.”

Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch

The benefits of attending are that this conference will enable you to:

  • Network with colleagues who are working to reduce medication errors 

  • Understand how to reduce medication errors

  • Reflect on the perspective of a patient who has lived experience of the human impact of medication errors 

  • Understand high risk drugs, high risk parts of the medicines use process and patients with the highest vulnerabilities 

  • Update your knowledge on the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and implications for medication error investigation 

  • Reflect on how you prioritise interventions in areas that will have the most impact 

  • Identifying and reducing high-risk prescribing errors in hospital 

  • Explore how can an understanding of human factors help to reduce medication error and improve medication safety 

  • Reflect on medication errors and ePrescribing including the role of clinical decision support and new potential errors that can emerge 

  • Effectively manage a medication incident investigation, including involving patients and the legal aspects, to ensure change occurs 

  • Reflect on case studies with the aim of reducing medication error in high risk areas 

  • Self assess and reflect on your own practice 

  • Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes

Speakers include:

Mr Mike O'Connell

Legal Services Practitioner and Interim Senior Inquests Manager
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Miss Michelle Stafford

Safety and Learning
Patient Safety
NHS Resolution

Mrs Angela Carrington

Lead Pharmacist for Medication Safety
HSC Northern Ireland

Ms Lucy Winstanley

Head of Patient Safety & Quality
Patient Safety & Quality
West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust

Exhibition & Sponsorship Packages

This conference offers a valuable opportunity for industry suppliers to personally meet with their target audience where they will have time to talk and demonstrate the benefits of their products. High quality specialist audiences make having a presence at our events a highly targeted and cost effective marketing channel.

Why Exhibit?

Having a presence at this event will give you the opportunity to:

  • Demonstrate your product, system or service
  • Network and engage with your key audience  
  • Generate new business leads
  • Gain exposure for your brand and raise the profile of your organisation
  • Understand the current needs of your audience and challenges they’re facing
  • Update your knowledge of national policy and local developments  

Enquire

Contact Sarah Jane for exhibition and sponsorship prices, or to discuss a tailored package to suit your needs and budget.

Fee Options

Virtual NHS, Schools, Care and Public Sector

£295.00

(£354.00)

Virtual Voluntary sector & charities

£250.00

(£300.00)

Virtual Commercial organisations

£495.00

(£594.00)

(Prices in brackets include VAT)

Discounts

Additional delegate discount:

A discount of 15% will be applied to fees for any extra delegates.

Online discount:

A discount of 10% will be applied if you pay using the website.

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