Date
30 October 2024Location
Online via WebEx at 12:30-14:00About the event
This interactive session was 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 shared 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 was 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 helped 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, Principal Pharmacy Technician NHS West Yorkshire ICB
Wendy Sunter
Consultant Pharmacist: Anticoagulation and Thrombosis, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Sejal Parekh
Programme Manager, NHS England
Victoria Speed
Specialist Anticoagulation Pharmacist, King’s College Hospital London
Rosalind Byrne
Principal Pharmacist Anticoagulation, King’s College Hospital London
SPS Speakers
Learn more about SPS team members who are speaking.
Resources
Information presented in these resources is correct at time of recording. Current guidance should be followed.
Recordings
Webinar Recording
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.
The Yellow Card Biobank pilot project and how you can help.
Dr Jessica Wright introduces the Yellow Card Biobank and how you can get involved to support DOAC safety research.
Presentation resources
Slides from the presentation are now available below.
Contact
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