CPSC Academy Event: 'Pharmacy - Keeping our Patients Safe'
Written by admin on Thursday 29th March 2018
CPSC is delighted to be able to offer all contractors in Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth the opportunity to participate in the first CPSC Academy event. Read more to see the agenda and how to book in.
In these challenging times, it has never been more important for community pharmacy and those involved in healthcare service provision to develop their capabilities and ensure they can be the best they can be.
The Community Pharmacy South Central Academy organises development events for pharmacy professionals on behalf of CPSC. Its aims, purpose and what you can expect from the events is explained on the following website linked page:
Look out for the dates throughout the year in the CPSC Academy Events calendar and book in now to fully benefit from this development opportunity. We do hope that you enjoy attending Academy events and that they facilitate you being able to work at the top of your profession more of the time.Academy Event 1: 'Pharmacy - Keeping our Patients Safe'
It is our personal and collective responsibility to provide care to our patients receiving medicines so that they achieve better health outcomes and their quality of life is improved. We do all we can to keep our patients’ safe and yet drug-related problems resulting in adverse reactions and sometimes hospitalisation are common. Almost half of these are preventable. Last year, the World Health Organisation launched their third global health challenge to reduce the level of severe, avoidable harm related to medications by 50% over the next 5 years, globally. More recently, the NHS has commissioned a report on patient safety in England and established a working group to make recommendations.
We all play an important part in achieving these goals. Patient safety is a key priority and responsibility for every pharmacy professional, their employers, the pharmacy sector, the NHS and patients.
Please join us for the first Academy series to make more of a difference:
- Understand why addressing medicines-related harm is so important
- Know what your local GP Practices are doing to reduce medicines most likely to cause harm and how you can help (PINCER)
- Keeping patients safe – the importance of mindset and culture (what can we learn from the aviation industry)
- The impact of medicines-related harm; personal experiences
- Why and how medicines-related harm occurs – prescribing, dispensing and patient-initiated
- Practical ways to improve patient safety in your own pharmacy
- How to complete your QPS Patient Safety report
- What to do if an error occurs
- Have a simple action plan to implement with your team
- Complete a Revalidation CPD entry
Our events will be practical, engaging and inspiring.
There will be some simple pre-workshop reflection to complete before attending so that you can contribute fully to the event. This will be sent to you 2-3 weeks before the event or on registration.
Dates and locations:
Book your event by going to the CPSC Academy Events calendar and using the Eventbrite link for the date you choose.
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Patient Safety is so important that we also encourage you to attend CPPE Focal Point Patient Safety: an anticoagulant case study. We are working with CPPE to ensure we complement each other’s programmes and give you the optimum experience.
Our Academy series is being supported by Hampshire-based pharmacy training specialists, Pharmacy Complete
