These patient safety resources are from the Safe Prescribing and Administration of Medicines in Scottish Hospitals Symposium.
If you have a patient safety resource that you would like to see displayed on this website, please send it to Sara Collier at s.collier@rcpe.ac.uk.
SPARS
By Professor Simon Maxwell, Tuesday 1 October 2013
- What is SPARS and who is involved and what are the remits and objectives?
- What progress has been made?
Hospital medication errors: The pharmacist’s perspective
By Ms Colette Byrne, Tuesday 1 October 2013
- What are typical medication errors and the underlying process failures in prescribing, supplying, administering and monitoring of medicines?
- What improvements would help to reduce common medication errors?
Download Presentation - This pdf contains a link back to a 9.5 meg .mp4 video file on this site.
Hospital medication errors: The nurse’s perspective
By Ms Carolyn Swift, Tuesday 1 October 2013
- What are the hospital medication errors that nurses commonly see?
- What improvements would help to reduce them?
Hospital medication errors: The junior doctor's perspective
By Dr Effie Dearden, Tuesday 1 October 2013
- Why do junior doctors make mistakes?
- What are the pressures of being a junior prescriber?
- What improvements would reduce common medication related errors?
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Delivering safe prescribing of insulins
By Ms Debbie Voigt, Tuesday 1 October 2013
- What are the common errors associated with prescribing insulin?
- How can good documentation improve safe prescribing of insulin?
Delivering safe prescribing of oxygen
By Professor Peter Calverley, Tuesday 1 October 2013
- What are the common errors associated with prescribing oxygen?
- How can good documentation improve safe prescribing of oxygen?
Delivering safe prescribing of anticoagulants
By Mr Steven McGlynn, Tuesday 1 October 2013
- What are the common errors associated with prescribing anticoagulants?
- How can good documentation improve safe prescribing of anticoagulants?
Electronic prescribing systems: the key to better hospital prescribing?
By Ann Slee, Tuesday 1 October 2013
- What are the ways in which electronic prescribing systems can reduce prescribing errors?
- What are the challenges of implementing a hospital electronic prescribing system?
