MedsIQ
Medication errors are a significant but preventable cause of harm to children and young people. MedsIQ was an RCPCH programme focused on improving medication safety, bringing together tools and improvement projects to share learning and support teams in their own frontline practice.
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Safe Prescribing
Resources and projects to reduce prescribing errors in paediatrics including dosage calculators, apps, prescription charts, guides and workbooks.
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Medicines Safety
Resources and projects to support improvement in paediatric medicines safety including guidance, tools, apps, workbooks and care bundles.
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Patient Support
Resources and projects to support families on medicines education and management including information leaflets and public awareness campaigns.
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Webinars
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Get Inspired: Learnings from the MedsIQ Champions Network – February 2019
Our medicines safety webinar in February 2019 featured the STAMP programme at Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Get Inspired: Learnings from the MedsIQ Champions Network – November 2018
On November 6th 2018, we had a webinar for MedsIQ Champions featuring the Medicines for Children team.
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Medicines for Children Producing a Medicines Management App for Parents and Carers
The Medicines for Children project has been awarded £50,000 from Comic Relief’s ‘Tech for Good’ programme to support the team to develop a medicines management app for parents and carers.
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Get Inspired: Learnings from the MedsIQ Champions Network – May 2018
Find out about a recently launched Hospital Passport for young people with disabilities at Great North Children’s Hospital.
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Get Inspired: Learnings from the MedsIQ Champions Network – February 2018
Our guest speaker in the latest webinar was Dr Carla Brown, from the National Infection Service, Public Health England.
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Get Inspired: Learnings from the MedsIQ Champions Network – December 2017
Our guest speaker for the webinar held in December 2017 was Dr Nicholas Appelbaum, from the Imperial College Institute of Global Health Innovation/ Helix Centre.
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Get Inspired: Learnings from the MedsIQ Champions Network – September 2017
Our September 2017 webinar featured a guest speaker, Andy Fox from Southampton University Hospital and the chair of Medicines for Children project board.
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Get Inspired: Learnings from the MedsIQ Champions Network – Summer 2017
Listen to two lively champions webinars hosted on February 7th and May 2nd 2017 with guest speakers from the STAMP project and Birmingham Children's Hospital.
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Get Inspired: Learnings from the MedsIQ Champions Network – November 2016
We are always very pleased to share with you the experiences of some MedsIQ Champions in their projects' development. Find out more about quality improvement interventions in medicines administration at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
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Get Inspired: Learnings from the MedsIQ Champions Network – June 2016
We are always very pleased to share with you the experiences of some MedsIQ Champions in their projects' development. Find out more about the hospital prescribing indicators of potential harm for infants and children, and listen to a webinar on the development of Neomate.
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