FEATURE
Making Manchester Safer
– A Work in Progress with GMAHSN Medicine safety is something many of us take for granted – as a result you may be surprised to hear that across Greater Manchester 9% of all reported incidents are related to medicines. Tomorrow’s Care caught up with Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Network to find out more about their latest bid to improve medicine safety and increase harm-free care in the area.
In a bid to improve patient safety last year the 15 Academic Health Science Networks in England were tasked with establishing patient safety collaboratives by the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
This was introduced against a backdrop of wider government safety initiatives including the Sign up to Safety campaign and The Q initiative (formerly 5,000 Safety Fellows) all designed to foster what NHS England call ‘locally led, self-directed safety improvement’.
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set up in Autumn 2014 to ensure continual patient safety learning remains at the heart of the country’s health services.
In response to this task Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Network (GMAHSN) decided to tackle the issue of patient harm by improving medicine safety, which they felt would ensure harm- reduction across more areas.
Alison Carter caught up with, Jane MacDonald, GMAHSN Director of Nursing and Implementation, to find our more about the project.
She commented: “We decided that instead of targeting something specific like kidney injury, falls, or pressure ulcers we would find a golden thread that ran through the majority of these areas.
“Medications are the second largest expenditure in the NHS, after workforce, so we felt that whilst trying to improve safety, if we could get patients to take medicines well and safely, we are more likely to be spending the resources of the NHS in a better way. This approach could also lead to a cost reduction as well.”
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