Welcome to the Medications Safety Thermometer Testers WebEx 11/09/14 We will begin shortly

1. Welcome to the Medications Safety Thermometer Testers WebEx 11/09/14 We will begin shortly

2. Agenda • Introductions • Testers’ Feedback • Data Review • Collection Form Data Quality Issues • MDT Step 3 Webtool integration • Ward Level Excel Dashboard • AOB + Questions

3. August’s Test • Collection form V16 used for the second time • 5566 submissions this month – 39933 Total (since Oct 13) • 2new trusts this month – 52 Trusts Total • Any feedback?

4. Medications Safety Thermometer Acute Dashboard Total Submissions : 30662

5. Medications Safety Thermometer Non Acute Dashboard Total Submissions : 9271

6. Data Quality Issues Around New Omission Question • Collection Form Version 16 • August collection much better than July in terms of data quality. • Still a few data quality issues around the new collection form.

7. Example Patient A, was prescribed an opioid on his admission to hospital. However there is now a valid clinical reason why staff have omitted to administer it. Patient A was also prescribed ‘other medication’, but as he was absent for the meds round this has also been noted as an omission.    

8. MDT Step 3 Webtool Integration

11. Ward Level Dashboard Excel Tool Available • Ward level excel tool now available. • Download from www.safetythermometer.nhs.uk. • Can break down data by setting, organisation and ward. • Data available from Oct 13 onwards.

12. AOB and Questions