In celebration of World Patient Safety Day, Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) has released their third annual World Patient Safety Day series focusing on collaboration. The series is authored by the AdPha Medication Safety Leadership Committee and focuses on collaboration in medication safety.
Toni Howell FANZCAP (Lead and Management, MedSafety), AdPha Medication Safety Leadership Committee Chair, says the series begins by discussing collaboration with consumers.
“World Patient Safety Day prompts us to stop and consider the purpose of everything we do, how much risk is involved, and how important it is to keep striving for excellence.
“It also reminds us that no matter how earnest and dedicated we are, we can’t fix medication safety on our own!”
“This series celebrates the relationships that strengthen and enhance medication safety across Australia.
“Engaging with consumers about medication safety keeps us all on our toes, in the best possible way. There are enormous benefits in this collaboration; co-design and genuine partnering to improve medication safety, and this relies on open and honest engagement.”
“A goal of our series is to give different perspectives on the same theme: the joys and Advanced Pharmacy Australia benefits of working together to achieve great things!”
AdPha President Tom Simpson says collaboration is at the heart of innovations in practice that are the hallmark of advanced pharmacy.
“Hospital pharmacists can help alleviate pressures on our medical colleagues, reduce length of hospital admissions and improve patient safety through collaborative models of care like Partnered Pharmacist Medication Charting (PPMC), while pharmacy technicians can help pharmacists and nursing staff spend more of their time delivering direct patient care through expanded clinical support roles.”
“Released last week, Pharmacy Forecast Australia 2024 provides new insight into how empowering pharmacist-led innovation can improve patient outcomes and closegaps in care continuity while improving the efficiency of the health system.”
