Option 6 - DERS for smart insulin pumps: Developing the role of a discharge pharmacist

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Satellite Option 6 - DERS for smart insulin pumps: Developing the role of a discharge pharmacist
Speakers 1) Dianne Burnett, Lead Medicines Information Pharmacist, Withybush General Hospital, Wales 2) Dr Tracey Boyce, Director of Pharmacy and Medicines Management, Southern Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland
Satellite Description

Two pharmacists give their personal reflections on patient safety initiatives. First Dianne Burnett speaks on Development and implementation of DERS for smart infusion pumps: A pharmacist’s experience then Tracey Boyce gives her view of Developing the role of a discharge pharmacist – the ups and downs of a new service.

Dianne Burnett has had a number of different roles within the clinical pharmacy profession including aseptic services and palliative care.  In 2003, she joined the UKMI network as the Medicines Information pharmacist at Withybush General Hospital and then, in 2011, became the Hywel Dda University Health Board Lead for Medicines Information. Over the last 3 years Dianne has created drug libraries for SMART infusion pumps (the first in Wales), which have been rolled out across the Health Board for adults, paediatrics and neonates. In 2017 Dianne was nominated to be the Health Board’s Medicines Safety Officer (MSO). In 2018 she was invited by NAMDET (National Association of Medical Device Educators and Trainers) to participate in the development of a UK position statement for Dose Error Reduction Software (DERS). Dianne continues to contribute to reducing medication errors and improving patient safety. 

‘Development and implementation of DERS for Smart Infusion Pumps: a pharmacist’s experience’

Dose error reduction software (DERS) loaded onto infusion pumps incorporates a drug library with pre-set upper and lower drug dose limits and infusion rates, which can reduce IV infusion errors. This is an important advance for patient safety at the point of patient care. However, uptake of this technology is still relatively low. Hywel Dda University Health Board was the first Health Board in Wales to roll out infusion pumps with a drug library installed. This presentation explains briefly how the technology contributes to reducing errors, the drivers for the implementation in the Health Board and the challenges that the Medicines Information team faced. It will include the gathering of intelligence for building the drug libraries, the importance of provider support, engaging the right people to ensure success of the project and all the while ensuring that governance of the libraries was robust.  

Tracey Boyce has been the Director of Pharmacy and Medicines Management in the Southern Health and Social Care (HSC) Trust since January 2006, managing 170 staff across two pharmacies, which provide services to all Trust hospitals and community facilities.  In 2014, Tracey took on additional responsibilities, coordinating Governance in the Trust’s Acute Services Directorate and also participating in the Trust’s Assistant Director on-call rota and the Acute Operational rota, taking her turn to assist with the management of the Trust’s two acute hospitals. In November 2016, Tracey was made a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society. Prior to her current post, Tracey led the development the newly-formed Northern Ireland Medicines Governance Team. The team of six senior hospital pharmacists works to improve medication related patient safety. In 2004, the team won the UK Health Service Journal Award for Patient Safety and, in 2006, Tracey completed a Doctor of Pharmacy Practice in risk management and patient safety. 

Developing the role of a discharge pharmacist – the ups and downs of a new service’

The presentation will cover the development of the discharge pharmacist prescribing service in the Southern HSC Trust. The areas covered will include how the service was funded and the human resource challenges faced with the introduction of the service. It will also cover the different models that were tested during the introduction of the discharge pharmacist service and the data collection methods used to measure its success. As always, nothing goes as smoothly as planned, so the presentation will discuss the challenges and frustrations faced along the way. The presentation will finish with outcome data and the next steps planned for the Southern HSC Trust discharge pharmacist service going forward.

 

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