MSATS – Safe Use of DOACs

Event 30 October 2024Location Online via WebEx at 12:30-14:00

Discussion of key current medication safety challenges within healthcare with a focus on the safe use of DOACs; inspiring partnership across the system.

Date

30 October 2024

Location

Online via WebEx at 12:30-14:00

About the event

This interactive session is part of the ‘Medication Safety Across the System’ (MSATS) series aimed at healthcare professionals, working in any sector with a role or passion for medication safety and/or involved in medicines use.

Our speakers will share innovative practices addressing safe use of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) to inspire and equip the audience ready for translation and replication across systems.

Why it’s important 

There are known risks associated with the use of DOACs. Harms continue to be reported across the system. 

Implementation of safety strategies to support the safe use of DOACs requires a collaborative and system wide approach to ensure safe and sustainable safety improvements. 

What will be covered 

  • A discussion of factors that add complexities to the safe prescribing, supply and administration of DOACs.
  • A ‘lived experience’ to understand the impact of these complexities when individuals cross care boundaries and continue their medicines.  
  • A discussion of high risk scenarios where patients on DOACs require additional planning and delegation of responsibilities to ensure safe use.
  • Shared exemplar practices related to improving the safety with DOAC use, which will allow for reflection on local practice and consideration for implementation at a local and system level. 
  • Opportunities to network with peers to inform the development of appropriate local and system wide responses, to enhance the safe use of DOACs. 

Learning Outcomes

  • Articulate key safety issues related to the prescribing or supply of DOACs and the safe monitoring across all care boundaries.  
  • Understand the importance of clear communication of agreed treatment plan across care boundaries.  
  • Understand the importance of good written and verbal communication to patients and carers along the patient pathway.  
  • Reflect on examples shared and identify actions or responses to recommend locally, in order to improve safe practice.

Speakers

A range of speakers from SPS and other organisations will help to run this event.

Non-SPS Speakers

Professor Roopen Arya – Keynote

Professor of Thrombosis and Haemostasis and Clinical Director for Haematological Medicine at King’s College Hospital

Ruth Dales

Senior Improvement Manager, Q Member and Patient Safety Specialist, Medicines Safety Improvement Programme, NHS England

Mark Donley

Lead Pharmacy Technician for Population Health Planning ICB in Leeds

Wendy Sunter

Consultant Pharmacist: Anticoagulation and Thrombosis

More speakers will be announced soon

SPS Speakers

Learn more about SPS team members who are speaking.

Register

Registration is now open. Once registered you will receive confirmation and a link for your diary.  

Note: Our webinars are provided for colleagues providing NHS services so please register with your NHS or work-based email address. If you don’t provide NHS services or are a charity, please drop us a line to clarify your interest in this webinar. 

Check your access before the event

Check that you are able to access WebEx prior to the event.

We recommend installing the Cisco WebEx app, or, alternatively, accessing the meeting via Google Chrome. If you are still having difficulty, you may need to contact your IT department to assist you in opening the application (you’ll only have to do this once). 

Joining on the day

Listen through your computer or mobile phone. The webinar will start promptly at 12.30 so join at least 10 minutes earlier so you don’t miss important information.

Dial in

If you experience trouble accessing the meeting from your computer, you can always dial in and listen through your phone.  

Call: 0203 478 5289 (Standard UK rates apply)

Access code: 2378 175 6596

Passcode: 288363

Resources

The event will be recorded and this will be available on the SPS website a few days later. Slides may not be routinely used in these webinars, but if they are they will be available after the event.

Recordings

DOAC integration into Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) across a system.  

Ben Leung shares his success with integrating DOACs into DMS; including standarisation of DOAC counselling criteria across a system. The benefits of this initiative are discussed and top tips for implementation in other systems shared.

Contact

Please contact the Admin Team if you have any questions.

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