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Why Participate?

  • Receive our exclusive reports highlighting your success and opportunities
  • Benchmark with your peers to understand how your Medication Safety compare 
  • Insight into your Medication Safety quality and practice
  • Share your successful innovations with your colleagues
  • Listen to Medication Safety experts to solve your issues
  • Develop practical implementation plans to improve your service

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Select Medication Safety on your member subscription and return by email to accounts@healthroundtable.org or contact Steve Bickford at steve.bickford@healthroundtable.org or on +61 418 638 770.

 

Timelineand Key Dates

 

20 March 2020
Data submission deadline

6 March 2020
Invitation to the workshop including agenda circulated

8 September 2020
Reports available on the website

May to September 2020
Medication Safety Improvement Group Webinar Series

Cost

$A5,450 excl GST
Individual delegate venue fees are separate at $415 per delegate.


Contact Program Manager:
Steve Bickford
Steve.Bickford@healthroundtable.org

Medication Safety Improvement Group

Workshop: 10-11th June 2020 Virtual Webinar

 

THE JUNE WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CONVERTED TO A WEBINAR.

Further information will be provided to members soon.

UPDATE: In response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, to protect our health workforce and acknowledge the service demands during these unprecedented times, components of this Medication Safety Improvement Group will be delivered virtually. Whilst this is an opportunity to explore and experiment with alternate delivery, we anticipate returning to the workshop model in the near future.

 

Advances in medicines have significantly improved life expectancy, quality of life and delaying the onset of diseases. The challenges of delivering safe and cost-effective medication, education to staff, patients and carers is critical in ensuring patient safety in the hospital and community.
 
In 2018, the AIHW reported $3 billion was spent on medicines in public hospitals in 2015-16. However, there is an incomplete picture of medicines dispensed in hospitals. The Medications improvement group is now in its 6th year and provides hospital and health leaders to learn how to achieve medications best practice.
 
The 2020 Medication Safety Improvement Group aims to improve the provision of high-quality and safe practice through tailored data analysis leveraging the adoption of electronic medication records and data.
 

Our exclusive reports highlight key insights for your facility and our unique workshops create collaboration and innovation sharing of best practice across Australia and New Zealand members.

After our Medication Safety workshop, you will have analysed your data, highlighted an opportunity, leveraged best practice and have an implementation plan ready to present to the workshop the following year.

The Medication Safety Workshop is an exciting and unique event to:

  1. Learn how to analyse the Medication report data
  2. Identify your organisations opportunities to improve
  3. Celebrate where your teams are exemplars
  4. Listen to leading experts in Medication Safety
  5. Share your innovations to the membership across Australia and New Zealand.
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The goals of the group are to:

Bring together a Multi-Disciplinary group of Pharmacists, Physicians, Nurses, Health information Managers and Data Analysts to identify “best practice” for safe and effective medicines use in Australasian hospitals.

Reduce adverse hospital events and complications that are attributed to medications

Identify “exemplar performers” in relation to medication safety practices

Share innovations in practices with an aim to improve patient and staff experience in relation to the dispensing and management of medication.

 

What do you need to do?

  1. Subscribe to the Medication Safety Improvement Group
  2. Designate a Medication liaison representative as a key contact for this group
  3. Extract non-casemix Medication data for your health service and submit as requested
  4. Organise a multi-disciplinary Medication Safety team to attend the group meeting
  5. Present your latest Medication Safety innovation at the Workshop
  6. Develop your Aim Statement and improvement plan
  7. Regularly review and analyse your reports, identify your opportunities and celebrate your success with your team

 

What does The Health Roundtable do?

  1. Work with key liaison contacts to plan the annual meeting.
  2. Collect and collate your data
  3. Produce your reports highlighting your Medication Safety performance
  4. Analyse your Medication Safety data to provide key insights and comparisons amongst members
  5. Facilitate the annual workshop including expert speakers, data masterclass and assist in identifying and sharing innovative best practice
  6. Enable you to identify your opportunities, develop your Aim statement and improvement plan
  7. Provide ongoing support around your data and reports

 

If you are interested in joining this group, have suggestions for improving the reports, or need any information please contact: 

Steve.Bickford@healthroundtable.org or Ph: +61418 638 770

Ben.Wakeling@healthroundtable.org or Ph: +61 468 993 080

 
 
 
 2019 Collaborative group focusing on standard definitions for medication data across organisations 
  2019 Collaborative focusing on targeted value add medicines management interventions that are evidence based and disinvest in low value care
2019  Collaborative focusing on improvements to nursing administration processes and decrease administration errors by introducing mandatory assessment 

 


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