Medication safety

Ensure as a pharmacy technician you're putting the patient first by staying up to date with the latest medication safety news and patient safety training courses.

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Patient safety: part eight

The eighth and final module in this series looks at the second victim phenomenon, in conjunction with CPPE.

13 Apr 2021 , 2 Min Module

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Patient safety: part seven

Part seven of this CPPE series looks at different tools that can be used to improve patient safety.

10 Mar 2021 , 5 Min Module

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Patient safety: part six

Part six of this series looks at the effectivness of huddles with regards to improving patients saftey.

10 Feb 2021 , 3 Min Module

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Patient safety: part five

Part five of this series looks at patient involvement and safety campigns.

14 Jan 2021 , 3 Min Module

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Patient safety: part four

The fourth module in this series looks at patient safety, reporting and analysis.

11 Dec 2020 , 6 Min Module

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Greener schemes in pharmacy

From blister packs to PPE, the range of pharmacy items that can now be recycled is growing all the time. 

19 Nov 2020 , 4 Min Article

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Patient safety: part three

Part three of this series provides an understanding of safety culture and some of the models that influence it.

18 Nov 2020 , 4 Min Module

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Patient safety: part two

Part two of patient safety considers the basic principles of the London Protocol and wider causes of patient safety incidents.

28 Oct 2020 , 4 Min Module

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Patient safety: part one

This CPPE module considers patient safety and helps pharmacy technicians understand what is meant by a safety culture.

16 Sep 2020 , 3 Min Module

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Deprescribing

This module provides an overview of managing inappropriate polypharmacy.

25 May 2020 , 3 Min Module

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Improving patient safety: lithium

This CPD module provides an overview of bipolar disorder and information on how to support patients taking lithium.

21 Jan 2020 , 4 Min Module

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Addiction prescription

PHE publishes the first ever review of dependence and withdrawal problems associated with five classes of medicines.

22 Nov 2019 , 3 Min Article

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Antimicrobial Resistance

This CPD module looks at antimicrobial resistance and the pharmacy team's role in tackling this patient safety threat.  

20 Oct 2019 , 4 Min Module

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Renal therapeutics: part two

Part two of this renal therapeutics CPPE module looks at the effects of medicines and how ADME are affected in patients.

25 Sep 2019 , 3 Min Module

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Antimicrobial stewardship

This module will consider the role of community pharmacy teams in tackling antimicrobial resistance

04 Jan 2019 , 900 Min Module