In Medication safety. We will reduce our We achieved this target. 2014/15 number of drug errors we said Medications safety is a that cause moderate During 2013/14 2% of our drug our No. crucial element of an harm or worse. errors caused moderate harm or 5 goal overall patient safety worse. In 2014/15 none of our was: programme. High risk drug errors caused moderate harm medications such as or worse. blood thinning agents pose a greater risk of Ongoing education will errors have caused low harm, serious harm to occur for all staff individual staff training needs have patients if they are involved in medication been assessed following each incorrectly prescribed errors. incident as part of root cause or administered. analysis. Missed doses of We have also introduced medication can lead to calculation training for nurses significant harm for patients. All reports from Feedback to staff and the sharing incidents with harm of lessons learned has occurred via graded moderate or our Medicines Optimisation above will be sent to all Group. staff concerned following Quality Improvement Team sign off.
In 2014/15 we said our No. 5 goal was: Medication safety. Medications safety is a crucial element of an overall patient safety programme. High risk medications such as blood thinning agents pose a greater risk of serious harm to patients if they are incorrectly prescribed or administered. Missed doses of medication can lead to significant harm for patients. We will reduce our number of drug errors that cause moderate harm or worse. Ongoing education will occur for all staff involved in medication errors. All reports from incidents with harm graded moderate or above will be sent to all staff concerned following Quality Improvement Team sign off. We achieved this target. During 2013/14 2% of our drug errors caused moderate harm or worse. In 2014/15 none of our drug errors caused moderate harm or worse. errors have caused low harm, individual staff training needs have been assessed following each incident as part of root cause analysis. We have also introduced calculation training for nurses Feedback to staff and the sharing of lessons learned has occurred via our Medicines Optimisation Group.