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“There are millions of medication errors every year in England. Hundreds of deaths are contributed to every year due to medication errors.”
NHS Digital, April 2025
“Patient harm due to unsafe care is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide and most of this harm is avoidable. Harm due to medicines and therapeutic options accounts for nearly 50% of preventable harm in medical care.”
Medication Without Harm, WHO, March 2024
This conference focuses on prioritising high risk medications and high risk patient groups to enable your interventions to have the highest impact on patient care and reduction in patient harm. The conference aims to bring together clinicians, pharmacists, medication safety officers and more. We will reflect on medication safety challenges, understand current national developments as well as debate and discuss key issues being faced in reducing medication errors and harm in hospitals. This conference will also update delegates on the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and implications for medication safety incident investigation.
The conference will include a session from leading experts in the field on how discrepancies in medication error reporting are leading to health inequalities among patients with protected characteristics. There will also be a session covering how roles in medication safety are expanding, including the involvement of the pharmacy technician in informing policy and practice changes:
“All the pharmacy technicians we spoke to told us they enjoy being able to make a difference to patient care. They highlight the benefits of working across different staff groups to improve engagement with medication safety and linking in with colleagues outside their organisation through the local and national networks. Working in medication safety gives pharmacy technicians a variety of knowledge and skills to support their development to higher posts. ”
UK Clinical Pharmacy Association, April 2024
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to reduce medication errors
Understand how to reduce medication errors in practice
Reflect on co-production solutions and working with patients with experience of medication errors
Understand high risk drugs, high risk parts of the medicines use process and patients with the highest vulnerabilities
Update your knowledge on the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and implications for medication error investigation
Reflect on how you prioritise interventions in areas that will have the most impact
Identifying and reducing high-risk prescribing errors in hospital
Raising awareness of high alert medications, situation and patient group populations and developing risk reduction strategies
Understand how roles in medication safety are expanding, including the role of the pharmacy technician
Identify ways we can change the culture surrounding medication errors across the system
Recognise the ways medication errors are leading to health inequalities
Explore how can an understanding of human factors help to reduce medication error and improve medication safety
Reflect on medication errors and eprescribing including the role of clinical decision support and new potential errors that can emerge
Effectively manage a medication incident investigation, including involving patients and the legal aspects, to ensure change occurs
Reflect on case studies with the aim of reducing medication error in high risk areas
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
