1. Safe Medicines on Discharge
Louise Maunick
MRPharmS, MPharm, Clin Dip Pharm
Joint Clinical Lead: Medication Errors

2. Getting Medicines Right
Patients are admitted to hospital to receive care, treated and discharged home – as part of this their medicines are reconciled and reviewed
Thinking about this video – it focuses a lot upon admission to hospital
But…..
Patients spend more time at home than they do in treatment centres so surely it is paramount to ensure the medicines are right at home?
This means making sure advice from treatment centres are understood
& making sure medicines have been reconciled on discharge

3. Why focus on Medicines at discharge?
30% and 50% of medicines prescribed for long‑term conditions are not taken as intended (World Health Organization 2003)
The number of people with multimorbidity in 2008 was 1.9 million, but this is expected to rise to 2.9 million by 2018
When people move from one care setting to another, between 30% and 70% of patients have an error or unintentional change to their medicines

4. Work so far…. Mapping the Medicines Reconciliation pathway
Established a sub-group to support work

5. Next steps….
Develop a toolkit which will share information across organisations
We can all learn from sharing best practice
The toolkit will be continually developing based on your feed back

7. The plan Split into two groups;
Group 1: focus on the discharge letter and discharge process
Group 2: focus on receipt of the discharge letter and how medicines reconciliation is conducted

8. The Task Choose a scribe & spokesperson Map out your process
Identify areas of risk
Talk about solutions you are aware of
Leave your name, contact details & description of solution your trust has worked on
Spokesperson to feedback