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My Lords, medication reconciliation is very important because it is a health and safety issue. Between 2003 and 2004, the National Patient Safety Agency declared that over 7,000 patients had been affected by an error with their medication. What are the Government doing to work closely with hospital pharmacies so that electronic records are shared between GPs and hospitals?
My Lords, medication reconciliation is very important because it is a health and safety issue. Between 2003 and 2004, the National Patient Safety Agency declared that over 7,000 patients had been affected by an error with their medication. What are the Government doing to work closely with hospital pharmacies so that electronic records are shared between GPs and hospitals?
NICE, the NPSA and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society have all identified the key role of pharmacists in medicines reconciliation. I am pleased to say that the majority of hospitals now have pharmacists on admission wards and doing daily ward rounds to ensure patients’ medicines are reconciled promptly. On the data point, I understand that NHS England is exploring the possibility of developing a business case for pharmacists to have access to the electronic summary care record. However, any work on this will need to be sequenced into the development timetable along with other priorities.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the estimated average cost of keeping a patient overnight in (1) a standard hospital bed, and (2) a negative pressure isolation room.[HL6461]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the estimated average cost of keeping a patient overnight in (1) a standard hospital bed, and (2) a negative pressure isolation room.[HL6461]
The estimated average cost of keeping a patient overnight in an acute hospital bed was £273 in 2012-13. No information is collected centrally to estimate the equivalent cost in a negative pressure isolation room.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Earl Howe on 6 February (HL Deb, col 309), what assessment they have undertaken of the risk of patients and their relatives taking legal action as a result of poor outcomes, including a higher risk of death to patients, at...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Earl Howe on 6 February (HL Deb, col 309), what assessment they have undertaken of the risk of patients and their relatives taking legal action as a result of poor outcomes, including a higher risk of death to patients, at...
No assessment has been undertaken of the risk of patients and their relatives taking legal action as a result of poor outcomes at the weekends.