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Keeping patients safe when they transfer between providers and making sure they are taking the right medicines is vital to their care and protection. Between 30 and 70 percent of patients have either an error or unintentional change to their medicines when their care is transferred? Pharmacy professionals can play a key role in the secure and accurate transfer of information about medicines between care providers to ensure patient safety.
Research has shown that when patients are admitted to hospital most are likely to have at least one omitted medicine or wrong dose and failures in communication at the time of discharge from secondary care can result in death or serious harm to patients as well as avoidable readmission.
Use the resources on this page to find out what a good transfer-of-care process for information about medicines should look like and the actions pharmacy professionals need to take to make this happen.
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The aim of this programme is to enable pharmacy teams across all areas of practice to facilitate safe and effective transfer of care for patients when they move care setting.
It provides you with the tools and resources available to help you get the right processes in place to support patients effectively, particularly after discharge back into the community.
2h:00m (for events this includes pre and post event learning)
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:
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This programme aims to support community pharmacy professionals to deliver the NHS Discharge Medicines Service. It will enable pharmacy professionals in other settings to understand how their role links to the patient’s journey through this service.
2h:00m (for events this includes pre and post event learning)
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:The purpose of this programme is to support pharmacy professionals in delivery of medicines reconciliation as part of an integrated care system with a focus on safe transfer of care.
2h:15m (for events this includes pre and post event learning)
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of all aspects of this programme you should be able to:The purpose of this programme is to support pharmacy professionals in delivery of medicines reconciliation as part of an integrated care system with a focus on safe transfer of care.
1h:00m (for events this includes pre and post event learning)
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:
This bulletin focuses on medication issues that can occur when adult patients over the age of 12 years are transferred between different care settings. This includes transfer between home, care home (providing both residential and nursing care), hospital, private healthcare, prison and other secure settings.
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