Medication

Medication Forum

Improving Medicine Safety

The Network medication safety forum was established in 2014 in response to local incident data that identified frequent medication errors and associated harm events. The forum consists of representatives from each trust’s critical care unit from pharmacy, medical and nursing staff along with clinical educators. Terms of reference have been agreed and the forum meet quarterly with a standard agenda item being the medication errors reported from each unit over the past 3 months. In this way members are able to identify themes and trends and tailor the improvement activity accordingly. Current improvement areas include: -

Reducing delays in antibiotic administration
Exploring the feasibility of adopting a standard noradrenaline concentration of 8mg/50ml (readymade vial)
Introduction of a Network guideline for inotrope syringe changes
Development of standards for arterial flush solution

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