Society publishes new guidance on recording pharmacy interventions
A new guidance document from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society advises pharmacists on the recording of interventions to help ensure patient safety and improve quality of care.
Among other things, the guidance offers advice on when an intervention
should be recorded, what details should be recorded, where the record
should be made and for how long records should be retained.
Council member Sid Dajani, who chairs the Council’s Practice Committee,
said: “Pharmacists regularly make essential interventions to improve
patient health and safety. This could be through preventing errors in
prescriptions or through offering public health advice, such as assisting
with smoking cessation.
“By recording these interventions, pharmacists are demonstrating
the significant contribution they make to patient care, and the value
they add when it
comes to procedures such as dispensing and prescribing. In addition,
recording interventions means the pharmacist has an accurate record available
for scrutiny if decisions are challenged and that incidents are appropriately
recorded as part of their organisation’s clinical governance framework.”
A version of the guidance appears in this week’s Journal (p517
PDF (50K)). The guidance can also be downloaded from the Society’s
website or
requested from the Society’s Practice
and Quality Improvement Directorate (tel 020 7572 2208; e-mail qualityimprovement@rpsgb.org).
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