NHS Lanarkshire Realistic Medicine and Realistic Healthcare aim is to empower patients, families and health and care workers to show its commitment to patient safety on World Patient Safety Day on Saturday, 17 September.
Karen Morrow, Realistic Medicine Programme Manager, explains:
“Our Realistic Medicine team is backing this year’s World Patient Safety Day campaign focussing on Medication Without Harm.
“NHS Lanarkshire aspires to be a healthcare provider where all health care decisions about a person’s care, tests or treatment, are taken together between the healthcare professional and the patient. This is called shared decision making.
“To support the access of information on shared decision making NHS Lanarkshire has launched a new Realistic Medicine webpage. Several information links and videos are provided including the NHSL 5 Questions and national BRAN resources on the webpage to help our patients, their families and health and care workers in shared decision making conversations.
The new Realistic Medicine webpage can be found here.
More information about this year’s World Safety Day’s Medication Without Harm campaign can be found here. The World Health Organisation provides resources to reduce the risk of medication harm by following these actions:
- Know the medication
- Check it is the right patient, medicine, route, dose and time
- Ask that your patient understands. Click here to download a ‘Know, Check, Ask’ poster.
For further information, please contact:
Karen Morrow, Realistic Medicine Programme Manager: Tel Mob: 07826875127 or karen.morrow@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
