We want to hear from you

Have you undertaken any improvement work on the safer use of time critical medicines? If so, we want to hear from you.

Contact us

If you have something to share, contact us via email at lnwh-tr.sps-mso@nhs.net

Background

Specialist Pharmacy Service and NHS England’s Medicines Safety Improvement Programme have identified time critical medicines as a key priority area for improving patient safety and reducing medicines related harm.

Time critical medicines refers to medicines which can potentially result in patient harm if the administration of a dose is delayed or missed.

Timing of medicines is important for various reasons such as for effectiveness, treating infection, or managing critical conditions.

Aim

The aim of this scoping, led by Specialist Pharmacy Service, is to draw out real examples of what has worked well and what has not worked so well, with the intention of creating a future national medicines safety improvement programme.

Scope

We are interested in any quality improvement work you have undertaken whether big or small, in planning stage or fully implemented, whether it has been successful or stopped due to experiencing challenges. We may collect your experience via an informal online interview. We will be facilitating interviews until March 2025.

Further information

See the SPS article Medication safety across the system: time critical medicines and watch this space for future resources that will be published soon.