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Statement 5.1

“The “seven rights” (the right patient, right medicine, right dose, right route, right time, right information and right documentation) should be fulfilled in all medicines-related activities in the hospital.”

This is not an exhaustive list of ‘rights’ and with the increase in use of personalised medicines the ‘right patient’ has an additional meaning beyond just identification of the individual, it is also now whether the medicine is genetically appropriate for that individ- ual patient.

What does it mean for patients? Healthcare teams continually review the medication procedures to improve safe medication practices for patients. Despite the continuous efforts to do this, mistakes and errors do occur. Reporting of errors and events of near misses* are essential to improve patient safety. Patients can rely on the strategies implemented in hospitals for quality assurance to detect errors and identify priorities for improvement and prevent the same error occurring.

* Events, situations, or errors that took place but were captured before reaching the patient. (www.ismp.org)

What does it mean for healthcare professionals? Healthcare professionals should collaborate with the hospital pharmacist to improve patient safety, by developing strategies for medication practices, including different methods to detect errors and identify priorities for improvement.

Reporting of errors and events of near misses are essential to improve patient safety.

What does it mean for Hospital Pharmacists? Hospital pharmacists should promote the reporting of errors and events of near-misses by all health professionals in the hospital.

Hospital pharmacists should be actively involved in the discussion forum that analyses the events and identifies corrective measures. Hospital pharmacists should develop simple, rules-based approaches to advancing patient safety.

The Uppsalla University Hospital is SILCC Host providing training on this Statement. Please learn more about the SILCC programme here.

The Hospital Gregorio Marañon is SILCC Host providing training on this Statement. Please learn more about the SILCC programme here.

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EAHP Forum

All the EAHP team is working on providing a Forum that can help connect all the members in Conversations and Groups to talk about important matters for the European Hospital Pharmacist.

The Forum will be accessible for all the EAHP members, you don’t have to create a new account to browse and participate.

Conversations and groups

The Conversations will be moderated by our team to provide documents and relevant topics for the community.

The Groups will connect all members that share a category. Members who work on the same assocation, on the same hospital, that have the same role, etc.

Stay tuned for the realase of the forum. Soon on EAHP.