Reducing Medication Errors in Hospitals National Summit 2018

Reducing Medication Errors in Hospitals National Summit 2018 is organized by Healthcare (HC) - UK Conferences and will be held on Sep 14, 2018 at De Vere West One, London, England, United Kingdom.

Conference Description :
This timely Summit which takes place during the WHO 3rd Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm aims to bring together clinicians, managers and medication safety officers and leads to understand current national developments, and to debate and discuss key issues they are facing in improving medication safety and reducing medication errors in hospitals. Following International and National Update sessions, the conference will focus on effective reporting of medication incidents, managing a medication incident investigation and ensuring change occurs, supporting staff, reducing medication errors in practice, developing a medication error reduction programme, using medication safety huddles, learning from patients and focusing on high risk drugs. There will also be focus on reducing medication errors through electronic prescribing.

Conference Objectives are :
• Network with colleagues who are working to reduce medication errors.
• Discuss the new national measures to reduce Medication Errors.
• Understand how you can play a part in the WHO 3rd Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm.
• Improve your skills in the reporting, investigation and learning from medication errors.
• Effectively manage a medication incident and ensure change occurs.
• Proactively reduce medication errors before they occur.
• Understand how to work with staff to reduce prescribing errors and improve prescribing competence.
• Explore how electronic prescribing systems can reduce medication errors.
• Developing your skills in root cause analysis and investigation of incidents.
• Self assess and reflect on your own practice.
• Gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.