Medicines Safety
Resources and projects to support improvement in paediatric medicines safety including guidance, tools, apps, workbooks and care bundles.
Guidance
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Neonatal IV Guide
A guide for healthcare professionals working on the neonatal unit to safely prescribe, prepare and administer neonatal injectable medicines.
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Standard Concentration Infusions for Paediatric and Neonatal care
Development of a national consensus on infusion concentrations for twenty common drugs in paediatric and neonatal care.
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Paediatric Medication Safety Workbook
A medication safety mandatory training workbook developed by Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Medication Safety Team for healthcare professionals administering medicines to children.
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Medicines Reconciliation in Children
The clinical significance of medicines reconciliation (MR) in children admitted to hospital, and the development and evaluation of pharmacy led admission services.
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Manipulation of Drugs Required in Children (MODRIC) – A Guide for Health Professionals
This guideline summarises the evidence from a systematic review alongside findings from an observational study of manipulations in neonatal and paediatric practice.
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Association for Paediatric Palliative Medicine Master Formulary
The APPM Master Formulary is a single standardised reference formulary, which is now acknowledged nationally and internationally as the standard reference formulary for paediatric palliative care.
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Safety Tools
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Medication Error Reporting and Prevention Tool
The Making it Safer Together (MiST) Collaborators identified this tool as a useful solution to providing a simple, accurate repeatable measure of the harm that arises from medication incidents.
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Pill Glide
Pill Glide was developed by a pharmacist to help make swallowing tablets and capsules easier for children.
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Neonatal Medicine Management App
An interactive and instructional Neonatal Drug Calculations mobile app to support healthcare professionals working in neonatal units.
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PrescQIPP Respiratory Webkit
The respiratory web kit brings together all the PrescQIPP respiratory resources on a web-based format allowing easy access of tools and ability to select projects to implement.
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Creating a Medication Safety Culture in PICU
A project to create medicines safety culture, empowering staff to say no to interruptions/ improving the reliability of incident reporting.
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Video Simulation to Improve Guidelines Against Never Events
Simulation using video feedback to test and improve complex guidelines for rarely used high risk medication such as high strength potassium infusion,
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Liverpool Adverse Drug Reaction Avoidability Assessment Tool (LAAT)
A novel tool developed to assess the avoidability of adverse drug reactions in children.
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The Alder Hey TRANSMIT Sheet
A structured handover sheet for paediatric inpatients, designed and validated in Alder Hey Children's Hospital to improve the quality of written information available to out of hours staff.
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Care Bundles
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Neonatal Blood Transfusion Care Bundle
Implementing Neonatal Blood Transfusion Bundle into a Local Neonatal Unit (LNU) within the Thames Valley and Wessex Operational Delivery Network.
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Ibuprofen Care Bundle
To improve the prescribing and administration of Ibuprofen to treat the closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in preterm infants.
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