Patient Safety
Welcome to our patient safety resource centre. In this space, we offer comprehensive support and up-to-date information on key aspects of patient safety to ensure that your pharmacy delivers care with the utmost precision and responsibility.
Accessible Information is defined as information that can be read or received and understood by the patient.
Advice for members on reporting an adverse drug reaction (ADR).
A chaperone policy is put into place to safeguard and protect patients and pharmacy staff.
All human beings make errors, so it is not surprising that pharmacists and their teams make mistakes.
A comprehensive library of medicines advice and guidance.
Risk assessment templates to assess you current practice for selling OTC or P-med sales of medicines that may be liable to abuse.
Support and Resources to improve patient safety and nominate a Medicines Safety Officer
Responsible pharmacist regulations come into effect on 1 October 2009.
Pharmacy teams have a professional, legal, moral and ethical duty to protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse or neglect, and to work with other organisations to safeguard vulnerable adults and children.
On Monday 1st July 2019 legislation allowing an emergency measure to manage supply called the Serious Shortage Protocol (SSP) in the event of a serious shortage of a medicine came into force.