Has Medication Safety Improved? Developing a Sustainable Health Intelligence System

The third WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge is Medication Without Harm. It aims to reduce severe avoidable medication-related harm by 50% globally in the next 5 years. But, how will healthcare organizations know whether their improvement efforts have been effective in contributing toward this goal? Many healthcare organizations struggle to undertake routine medication safety measurement and surveillance, if at all. Most organizations still rely on voluntarily reported incident reporting to monitor the state of medication safety despite its well-known limitations.
For this webinar, the presenter will provide a brief overview of contemporary medication safety measurement and monitoring research. Using an organizational case study from Waitemata District Health Board as an illustrative example, the presenter will explore how medication safety can be practically, sustainably and routinely measured for the purpose of monitoring progress and informing further improvement.

Objectives:
1. Get insights on how medication safety is being measured at Waitemata District Health Board

2. Explore ways to make better use of existing and routinely collected data

3. Learn how to co-design and select indicators that are meaningful to stakeholders



Speaker:

Jerome Ng, PhD, Waitemata District Healthboard (DBD), Clinical Director of Healthcare Quality, Bay of Plenty DHB, Honorary Lecturer, School of Population Health and School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Moderator:

Mary Helen R. Pombo, MSc, Program Lead, Leading Health Systems Network & Policy Fellow, Center for Health Policy, Institute for Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London

More about LHSN

Based at Imperial College and in partnership with the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), the Leading Health System Network (LHSN) is a collaborative network of healthcare leaders and organisations dedicated to improving health care delivery by effectively and efficiently using available resources. Our network brings together the best ideas, models of care, and strategies to drive sustained improvement, and connects health care leaders to a like-minded community of peers that share the same goals and challenges.

Contact the Leading Health System Network (LHSN):
LHSN@imperial.ac.uk

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