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Reducing Medication Errors Across the Whole Patient
Journey
Gordon Thomson Lead Pharmacist, Urgent Care and
Medicine NHS Tayside
The Tay Rail Bridge Disaster 18????
Framework in Scotland
Quality Strategy – medicines reconciliation
eHealth Strategy – vision for single shared medication record
History of data sharing across care boundaries
Use of single patient identifier
Scottish Clinical Information (SCI) systems
Scottish Patient Safety Programme – medicines reconciliation and high risk medicines
HEPMA in 3 acute hospitals only!
Aims: To deliver the highest quality healthcare services to the people of Scotland For NHS Scotland to be recognised as world-leading in the quality of healthcare it provides
Is it important to get the medicines right?
Pirmohamed et al BMJ (July 2004)
18,820 admissions over 6 month period
6.5% of admissions related to medicines
2.3% of those died as a result of the ADR
Accurate medication history required for appropriate management
Accurate data on medicines required at discharge
Keeping Patients Safe (Royal Pharmaceutical Society Report June 2012)
<10% chance that an elderly patient will be discharged form hospital on the same medicines as at admission
28-40% of medicines are discontinued during a hospital stay
45% of medicines prescribed on discharge are new
60% of patients have 3 or more medicines changed during their hospital stay
Almost half of Scots over 65 are receiving 5 or more prescribed medicines
Poly-pharmacy in Scotland May – July 2011
Source: PIS Provisional Analysis
ATOS data 22% of admissions to AMU were
“medicines-associated” Incidence of Medicines Involved
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
PPI
Thiazide Diuretics
Loop Diruetics
ACE-Inhibitors
AII Antagonists
B-Blockers
Nitrates
Digoxin
Other Antihypertensives
Antiplatelets
Anticoagulants
Statins
Opioid Analgesia
Other Analgesia
NSAIDs
Antimicrobials
Antidiabetics
Others
Don Berwick, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
The Scottish Patient Safety Programme is without doubt one of the most ambitious patient safety initiatives in the world –
national in scale, bold in aims, and disciplined in science.
It harnesses the energies and wisdom of Scotland’s health care
leaders – NHS executives, QI experts,, clinical professionals, civil
servants, , and more – all aligned toward a common vision,
making Scotland the safest nation on earth from the
viewpoint of health care.”
Medicines Reconciliation
Reliability in process of medicines reconciliation
Variation in accuracy of medicines reconciliation on admission and discharge.
In Tayside, medicines reconciliation on admission has spread to 94% of clinical areas.
NHS Tayside Medicines Reconciliation Policy and flow chart posters for all clinical areas
National policy awaiting approval from Scottish Government – see later!
95% accuracy on admission
95% accuracy at discharge
95% accuracy on transfer
NHS Scotland: Medicines Reconciliation
Make it easier to do the right thing!
Maximising use of eHealth solutions
Emergency Care Summary/Vision 360
Electronic Discharge Document(EDD)
Import of medicines from GP list
“Stopped” medicines clearly highlighted
Sent directly to GP Practice on discharge
Clinical Portal hosts these systems and others
Acute
System
s
Nationa
l
Systems
Local
System
s
GP
System
s
CP
System
s
ASCribe 8/9
ChemoCare
Central Vision
Monitor
Summaries
E-Discharge e.g. Medication discharge letter
Clinical
Messaging
Lab Result
Enquiry
Test
Requesting
Clinical System e.g. VISION
N3/Local Network
Access
PMR System
Prescription Tracer
eMM
SCI Store
New PRISMS
ePharmacy Message
Store
Patient Registration
System (PRS)
PSD
A/CHI Ascribe B/Obj
LTC SCI-DC
Hearts/ SCI-CHD
TARDIS
TEARS
Stroke
Controlled Drugs
Clinical Portal
National CHI
Amended Slide
PARTNERS
e-Financials
Developing the Electronic Discharge Document(EDD) in NHS Tayside
Collaborative in-house development involving clinical and ehealth teams
Functionality of previous cardiology system
(SCI-CHD) enhanced
Initially tested in 2 wards with high volume complex discharges
System refined and functionality enhanced
Spread plan implemented – iterative approach to refinement
Features of EDD
Provides workflow for clinicians to construct discharge record from point of admission to discharge from hospital
Uses information from primary care (ECS) to support discharge process
Populates the shared patient record
Uses national standard DM&D drug dictionary
Utilises Electronic Document Transfer (EDT) technology
Built-in safety features – warfarin, medicine changes
Optimises Pharmacy workflow
Benefits of EDD
Ensures effective and timely communication between clinicians
Enhances collaboration between hospital and primary care
Improves medicines reconciliation across care boundaries
Improves accessibility to discharge records Reduces delays in prescriptions reaching
pharmacy Final discharge letter not always required
Pharmacy Care Plan
Testing a model for clinical communication at interface
High risk patients identified in secondary care Locality pharmacist resource can be directed to
the high risk patients in primary care Streamlined follow up of pharmaceutical care
needs Phase 2 allows creation of care plan not related
to hospital discharge Aim to involve community pharmacy in care
planning process(January 2014)
The plan
Extract from eHealth Delivery Plan 2011 -14 Targets agreed with Scottish eHealth Department To support the move to a paperless environment the undernoted actions will be undertaken:-
A plan will be in place to deliver all communications covering the 14 national clinical information sources via Clinical Portal Clinical Portal will be available to all GP practices by 31st March 2012. 50% of Tayside clinicians will be accessing the portal by 31st March 2012
A single pharmacy care plan shared between Hospital and practice pharmacists will be piloted by 31st March 2012
New order communications and reporting service will be introduced to all GP practices by March 2012 New order communications and reporting service will be introduced to 75% of all secondary care by March 2012
By 31st March 2012 50% of all Immediate discharge summaries will be processed electronically via the EDD service
By April 2014 95% of referrals from optometrists to hospital eye services will be done electronically with the necessary business changes in place (Eyecare Integration project)
By April 2014 95% of all optometry claims will be made electronically (Eyecare Integration project)
Stewart Hunter eHealth Programme Manager November 2011
Foundation Doctor quote – Ninewells Hospital June 2013
“Use of the Clinical Portal has completely changed how I admit a patient”
Beena Raschkes, GP, Tayside
“The Electronic Discharge Document is delivered direct to the doctor’s desktop as soon as the patient is discharged. It’s legible, clear, consistent and concise and includes current and amended medication details. This is a great example of collaborative working within the NHS to support superb patient care”
Tayside – where are we now?
60 wards using EDD
4000 EDD discharges per month
Spreading to Paediatrics and Mental Health
ePharmacy Care Plan tested and being spread as part of NHS Tayside Pharmacy Strategy
What would we do differently?
Secure nursing engagement from the outset
Shift responsibility for implementation to clinical teams
Direct link to patient management system
Manage expectations
Expect new errors
“Hot of the Press”
CMO letter(September 2013)-Medical Directors
accountable to Scottish Government for medicines reconciliation. Updated definition and measures
“Prescription for Excellence”(September 2013) – Scottish Government 10 year vision for
Pharmacy
Safer Use of Medicines Network – national
focus for multidisciplinary collaboration on medicines
reconciliation and high risk medicines
NHS Scotland eHealth Vision – single shared medication record