Patient Safety
This page contains a range of resources to support you to meet your clinical governance requirements and quality payments.
MHRA Alerts
The Central Alerting System (CAS) is a web-based cascading system for issuing patient safety alerts, important public health messages and other safety critical information and guidance to the NHS and others, including independent providers of health and social care.Alerts available on the CAS website include safety alerts, CMO messages, drug alerts, Dear Doctor letters and Medical Device Alerts. Sign up to receive e-mails directly by visiting https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency/email-signup
Drug alerts and medical device alerts
Subscribe to MHRA’s alerts and recalls for drugs and medical devices.
Drug Safety Update
Subscribe to the Drug Safety Update, the monthly newsletter for healthcare professionals, with clinical advice on the safe use of medicines.
News and publications from the MHRA
Subscribe to MHRA’s new publications, statistics, consultations and announcements.
Support from PSNC
Visit the dedicatied patient safety alerts on the PSNC website which list alert and recalls and give advice and guidance relating to patient safety.
Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group
The patient safety group provides a forum for community pharmacy organisations to openly share and learn from each other when things go wrong, as well as from other sectors and industries. It has a range of useful CPD and patient safety resources.
NPA Support
The NPA’s Director of Pharmacy Leyla Hannbeck is acting as the Medication Safety Officer (MSO) for all independent community pharmacies in England with fewer than 50 branches.
The Patient Safety Incident report form England enables independent community pharmacies with fewer than 50 branches to report medication errors quickly and conveniently. Completed forms can be printed in the pharmacy or users can request that the form is emailed to them. Keeping completed forms can help pharmacies to meet the record-keeping standards for principle 1 of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) inspection model. Incidents reported using this form do not need to be separately reported via the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS); the NPA will anonymise the information and send it to NRLS (for forms submitted by pharmacies based in England only).
See the NPA website for further details and guidance.
CPPE
The CPPE Gateway Page links to a range of available training resources for the whole pharmacy team.
