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What is medicines management?

Medicines Management T ips & Preparing for your CQC I nspection with Gerry Devine Practice Management Advisor. What is medicines management?. Medicines management supports better and more cost-effective prescribing in primary care, as well as helping patients to manage medications better.

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What is medicines management?

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  1. Medicines Management Tips & Preparing for your CQC InspectionwithGerry DevinePractice Management Advisor

  2. What is medicines management? • Medicines management supports better and more cost-effective prescribing in primary care, as well as helping patients to manage medications better. • Good medicines management can help to reduce the likelihood of medication errors and patient harm.

  3. Patient safety is central to…

  4. Controlled Drugs • Do you have an SOP? • Ordering • Storing • Administering • Recording • Destruction • Trained staff • Awareness of how staff should raise any concerns • Awareness of Area Team CDAO

  5. Hospital Discharge Letters Process for clinical review of discharge and advisory letters Any changes to be reviewed and checked by an independent prescriber before those changes are made to a patient's record

  6. Clinical Audit

  7. Emergency Drugs • Can practice respond immediately to needs of a person who becomes seriously ill? • Has provision of emergency drugs been risk assessed in light of: • Practice location? • Ambulance response times? • Access to pharmacy services? • If clinicians take medicines out of practice is there an overt audit trail?

  8. Medicines Safety Alerts

  9. Repeat Prescribing • Has a repeat prescribing policy • Awareness of policy • Designated staff members trained to issue repeat prescription • Protocols on handling of: • Repeat requests for controlled drugs • Repeat request for drugs that require monitoring • Patient who do not attend for medication reviews

  10. Safety Learning From Incidents

  11. …And here’ some links to some FPM protocols that may also help • Clinical Audit Toolkit • Cold Chain Policy • Controlled Drugs (Handling, Storage and Destruction) Protocol • Emergency Drugs (Checking) Policy • Infection Control Policy • Prescribing Compliance

  12. Thank you for watching! For further information please visit our website: www.firstpracticemanagement.co.uk For details on Thornfields’ training courses visit: www.thornfields.co.uk

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