NHS Innovation Agency
North West Coast Patient Safety Collaborative
on Medication Safety
On behalf of our U3A I attended a meeting of the above group on 22nd January. They are conducting a project aimed at increasing medication safety, looking at four areas in particular:
- The safe prescribing of medicines in primary care.
- Transfer of care between primary and secondary care to ensure effective and timely communication of any medication changes when a patient is discharged from hospital.
- Poly pharmacy (prescribing of large numbers of medication items to one patient, which increases the risk of drug interactions and can lead to failure to take medicines correctly).
- Medicines administration in care homes.
If anyone has any suggestions of how medication safety could be improved from a patient’s perspective, please contact me – Julia Bate, Tel: 01744 883086 – and I will mention them at the next meeting which will probably be in 2 or 3 months’ time.
Julia’s email address can be found in Bob Carlton’s January enews.
Last Updated on March 16, 2020