Date
30 October 2024Location
Online via WebEx at 12:30-14:00About the event
This interactive session is part of the ‘Medication Safety Across the System’ (MSATS) series aimed at healthcare professionals, working in any sector with a role or passion for medication safety and/or involved in medicines use.
Our speakers will share innovative practices addressing safe use of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) to inspire and equip the audience ready for translation and replication across systems.
Why it’s important
There are known risks associated with the use of DOACs. Harms continue to be reported across the system.
Implementation of safety strategies to support the safe use of DOACs requires a collaborative and system wide approach to ensure safe and sustainable safety improvements.
What will be covered
- A discussion of factors that add complexities to the safe prescribing, supply and administration of DOACs.
- A ‘lived experience’ to understand the impact of these complexities when individuals cross care boundaries and continue their medicines.
- A discussion of high risk scenarios where patients on DOACs require additional planning and delegation of responsibilities to ensure safe use.
- Shared exemplar practices related to improving the safety with DOAC use, which will allow for reflection on local practice and consideration for implementation at a local and system level.
- Opportunities to network with peers to inform the development of appropriate local and system wide responses, to enhance the safe use of DOACs.
Learning Outcomes
- Articulate key safety issues related to the prescribing or supply of DOACs and the safe monitoring across all care boundaries.
- Understand the importance of clear communication of agreed treatment plan across care boundaries.
- Understand the importance of good written and verbal communication to patients and carers along the patient pathway.
- Reflect on examples shared and identify actions or responses to recommend locally, in order to improve safe practice.
Speakers
A range of speakers from SPS and other organisations will help to run this event.
Non-SPS Speakers
Ruth Dales
Senior Improvement Manager, Q Member and Patient Safety Specialist, Medicines Safety Improvement Programme, NHS England
Wendy Sunter
Consultant Pharmacist: Anticoagulation and Thrombosis
More speakers will be announced soon
SPS Speakers
Learn more about SPS team members who are speaking.
Register
Registration is now open. Once registered you will receive confirmation and a link for your diary.
Note: Our webinars are provided for colleagues providing NHS services so please register with your NHS or work-based email address. If you don’t provide NHS services or are a charity, please drop us a line to clarify your interest in this webinar.
Check your access before the event
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Joining on the day
Listen through your computer or mobile phone. The webinar will start promptly at 12.30 so join at least 10 minutes earlier so you don’t miss important information.
Dial in
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Resources
The event will be recorded and this will be available on the SPS website a few days later. Slides may not be routinely used in these webinars, but if they are they will be available after the event.
Contact
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