Module Summary
Dr Martin Duerden advises on making your practice systems safer.
Learning Objectives
After reading this article you will be asked to record your learning points and some action points to earn a suggested 1 CPD credit. Below are some suggested questions to reflect on as you work through the module:
- Do you have a system to detect and follow-up uncollected scripts in your practice? If not, do you think you should institute one?
- When was your repeat prescribing system last reviewed? Are there ways in which it could be made safer and more medicolegally watertight?
- Consider discussing any medication errors which have been noted over the last year or so in the context of a significant event analysis.
- Consider convening a meeting with your local pharmacists to exchange views on ways of minimising drug errors.
- Do you have a system for ensuring that patients on high risk drugs such as warfarin or DMARDs are adequately monitored? Consider auditing this to see how well the system is performing.
Author
Dr Martin Duerden is a sessional GP in North Wales and clinical senior lecturer, Bangor University
Date module published
May 01, 2017
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