Act as the Medication Safety Officer for the Trust, becoming a clinical expert for medication safety. Provide a highly specialised pharmacy service in the field of medication safety and risk management. Promote an open and honest culture to encourage, promote and increase the reporting of medication events and learning. Review all medication events reports, adopting a questioning approach and root cause analysis to identify contributory factors to ensure data quality for local and national learning, and where necessary, investigate and find additional information from reporters.
Produce and contribute to medication related investigations as required according to the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF), and NHSE Never Events involving medicines. Produce a quarterly Thematic Review of Local Incident Medication Priority Events to disseminate Trust-wide. This will contain information from analysis of reports and identify trends for lessons to be learnt. Act as the Professional Secretary to the Medication Safety Group:
* Ensure that the Group regularly reviews medication event reports, improves reporting and learning, and takes local action to minimise harm to patients.
* Work with colleagues in nursing, medicine and other healthcare professionals to ensure there is clarity on roles with respect to medication event reporting.
* Agree mechanisms to feedback data on medication events to reporters.
* Support the dissemination of medication safety communications from NHS England and the MHRA, and the management of medication-related national patient safety alerts and campaigns.
* Provide regular updates and formal reports to the Chief Medical Officer on medicines related patient safety events.
Regularly review information from the LFPSE and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to support improvements in reporting and learning and to take local action to improve medication safety. Respond to urgent requests for advice from pharmacy, medical, nursing staff and other healthcare professionals with regard to medication safety related issues and concerns. Ensure the role of the Medication Safety Officer is covered for planned and unplanned absences. Lead the development and implementation of local strategies and policies to reduce risks with medicines.
Deliver medication safety education and training to pharmacy, medical, nursing staff and other healthcare professionals as required. Build relationships with existing Trust risk management and/or clinical governance teams. Investigate reports that are available locally, for example the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trusts data compared to selected others. Actively contribute to the national Medication Safety Network, including attendance at monthly Medication Safety Officer webinars organised by NHS England.
Attend and actively contribute to the Yorkshire and Humber Medication Safety Officers Group, bringing learning back to the Trust. Attend and actively contribute to the West Yorkshire ICS Medicines Safety Network Meeting. Attend and actively contribute to the Trust Patient Safety Oversight Group and MY Shared Learning Group.
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