Improving Safety in Medicines Management

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Achieving accuracy in medicines administration - the right drug, the right dose, the right mode of administration and the right patient - is an obvious patient safety standard. This award seeks to recognise organisations that have reduced the number of drug errors or eliminate them - from the minor to those with serious and even fatal consequences. This category invites examples of initiatives designed to improve safety in the administration of medicines. It could include a specific innovation such as a new labelling, storage or packaging procedure or a wider cultural initiative encouraging maximum reporting of drug errors.

Specific entry criteria

Entries will be judged against the following criteria:

• The quality and originality of the idea;
• The results - clear and measurable outcomes;
• Compliance - how widespread was take-up of the initiative and what was done to ensure consistency across the organisation;
• Dissemination - how was the learning spread across the organisation and beyond.