Monitoring & Reducing Medication Errors & Harm in Hospitals National Summit 2018

This timely Summit in line with the WHO Medication without Harm programme - aims to bring together clinicians / managers / medication safety officers and leads to understand current national developments - and to debate and discuss key issues and areas they are facing in improving and monitoring medication safety - and reducing medication errors and harm in hospitals. Following National Update sessions - the day will focus on effective reporting of medication incidents / monitoring medication errors and harm / managing a medication incident investigation and ensuring change occurs / supporting staff / reducing medication errors in practice / developing a medication error reduction programme. There will also be focus on using eprescribing systems to optimise medication safety and monitor error and harm.