Cambridge University Hospital’s introduction of barcode medication administration (BCMA) has improved patient safety by reducing the overall rate of adverse drug events and decreasing transcription errors. Medication scanning is a vital component of HIMSS stage 6 and is live across all inpatient areas and ED. On average 168,000 medication administrations are scanned per month.
A safer and more efficient e-prescribing system is now in place across Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust’s 228-bedded 13 high secure wards. The trust is one of only three in the UK offering high secure mental health facilities and has seen improvements through the implementation of an EPMA solution, including a reduction in medication errors …
Safer prescribing for around 68,000 patients has been brought in at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust thanks to new electronic links between wards/departments and pharmacy. Benefits have included immediate access to the drug dictionary helping staff on appropriate routes/dose and forms and advice on choice of medicines and other therapies, with alerts for …
Read about Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust learnings around their new e-prescribing and medicines administration system (EPMA) which is expected to remove an estimated 310,000 paper-based individual medicines transcriptions per year, reducing the associated error rate to zero. This will eliminate linked patient harm and save clinical staff hours of time each day.