The following brief work program has been put together as the basis for meeting the objectives set out in the SPARS Working Group Terms of Reference:
|
Planned work |
Responsibility |
Status |
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Ensure that the initial membership of the SPARS group reflects the important stakeholders in the process of unifying the prescription and administration record (e.g. Royal Colleges, NHS, Education Scotland, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Chief Pharmacists) |
RCPE / HIS / SPARS Working Group |
Complete |
|
Agree the initial Terms of Reference, predicted outputs and work program |
SPARS Working Group / HIS |
Complete |
|
Identify a wider group of consultees who might be able to provide feedback on key documents created by the SPARS group |
SPARS Working Group |
Complete |
|
Identify and form links with other groups within Scotland and elsewhere who are doing related work |
HIS |
Ongoing |
|
Identify sources of evidence concerning the impact of unifying prescribing documentation (and other documents relevant to patient safety) |
HIS |
Complete |
|
Discuss and agree on the attributes of an ideal prescription and administration record for adult hospital in-patients drawing on national and international examples of best practice |
SPARS Working Group |
Complete |
|
Gather documentation currently in use in Scotland |
Chief Pharmacists |
Complete |
|
Undertake a survey of current in-patient documentation looking for concordance with the standards identified above and significant variations that might cause confusion |
SPARS Working Group |
Complete |
|
Compile and publish a report based on that work |
SPARS Working Group |
Ongoing |
|
Identify expertise in the construction of medical documentation |
HIS |
Complete |
|
Create a chart that might be adopted as a Scottish national prescription and administration record |
HIS |
Version 4 under consideration |
|
Undertake user-acceptability testing of the current prescription charts |
SPARS Working Group |
Complete |
|
Undertake small-scale user-acceptability testing of the new prescription chart |
SPARS Working Group
|
Awaiting the above |
|
Undertake a formal pilot in a clinical unit
|
HIS |
Awaiting the above |
|
Agree on a series of standards of prescribing that would be linked to use of the new prescription documentation |
SPARS Working Group
|
Awaiting the above |
|
Develop an educational package that would help to ensure that relevant professionals (and trainees) were able to use the chart correctly and prescribe based on the principles identified above |
NES |
Awaiting agreement on above |
|
Plan a symposium/consensus conference that will serve to communicate some of the issues that have arisen in the course of the Group’s work |
RCPE/Scottish Academy
|
Date agreed and comments of symposium committee received |
|
New items for discussion August 2012 |
New items for discussion August 2012 |
|
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Create a website to communicate the aims, objectives and work of the SPARS Group including the achievements delivered above |
HIS / RCPE |
Complete |
|
Apply for a CSO grant to do further studies around the first iteration of a new Scottish chart |
SPARS Working Group |
Awaiting the above |
|
Publish the studies above |
SPARS Working Group |
Study submitted |
(Updated 22.01.13)