WHAT’S NEW?
New Report Promotes Best Practice For Care In A&E
A new report has been launched by Omnicell UK & Ireland to encourage UK A&E departments to embrace ward-based pharmaceutical technology.
The ‘SAFE: Safeguard Against Frontline Errors’, launched by the provider of automated healthcare solutions and medication adherence packaging report, is part of a new campaign to raise awareness and promote best practice standards of care for the management of medication in A&E departments in UK hospitals.
The figures for 2015/6 showed that on average 49,000 people attended major A&E departments in England every day – in winter this figure rockets. As well as driving much-needed efficiencies, the SAFE report analyses the key role automation plays in patient safety around medication management and compliance. Recent figures show that in the 12 months
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leading up to September 2016, more than 190,000 medication errors involving the management of medication were reported in England to the NHS National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS). These errors include; giving the wrong medicine, the wrong dose of the right medicine – or giving medicine to the wrong patient. The majority, nearly 150,000 were reported in UK hospitals. Yet, technology exists via innovative digital dispensing and management systems which can dramatically reduce, if not eradicate, all these errors.
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Omnicell has launched the SAFE report together with an A&E Standard of Care booklet to encourage more Trusts and policy makers to embrace ward-based
The new report, which was commissioned by Omnicell and authored by a leading pharmaceutical expert, found that, within an A&E setting, ward-based pharmacy automated medicines cabinets result in a more efficient and reliable system for patients and staff. Automation has significantly helped A&E departments
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pharmacy technology in order to create a system that can cope efficiently with these pressures and deliver a world- class health service. Both resources are to be distributed free of charge to NHS Trusts across the country as well as Patient Safety Collaboratives, in an effort to share best-practice and learning across the NHS.
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