Four more new medicines management Standard Operating Procedures have been posted for urgent consultation today. They are: · SOP for Record Keeping and CD Register Entries SOP for Controlled Drug Reconciliation · SOP for Disposal of Controlled Drugs · SOP for Administration of Controlled Drugs – The documents can be viewed at http://www.secamb.nhs.uk/staf
NHS Improvement has issued a Patient Safety Alert regarding the need to support safer care for full-term babies. While the decision to admit neonates usually occurs within the maternity unit/team, staff should be aware of this alert as babies born in the community who are conveyed to hospital are in scope for this alert. While some term baby admissions are entirely appropriate (for example babies
Two new medicines management Standard Operating Procedures have been posted for urgent consultation today. They are: Standard Operating Procedure for Changing Security Codes for Medicines Storage and Procedure for the use of time expired medications in education and training The documents can be viewed at http://www.secamb.nhs.uk/staff_zone/my_secamb/policies_and_procedures/your_views_sought.aspx
Don’t miss out on a great opportunity for some hands-on learning with the very interactive SimAtmosphere – a 360-simulation area which will allow participants to immerse themselves in scenarios and test their knowledge and skills. The SimAtmosphere and the simbulance form part of one of the exciting workshops being offered at the Trust’s FREE one-day conference, Listen, Learn Change being held at
Please be advised that, due to a licence upgrade, ePCR will be offline from 21:00 hours tonight, Monday 21st August until further notice. Please revert to paper for all incidents and refer to your ePCR Support iMessage group for further information. If you do not have an ePCR Support iMessage group, please contact your local Support User or OTL. ePCR Project Team
Message sent on behalf of Jeanette Ferguson, Senior Pharmacy Technician Dear Colleagues, Please all be aware of an alert regarding medicines waste bins. As you will read in the alert, the Bio bin boxes that are currently used to dispose of non-hazardous pharmaceutical waste e.g. broken ampoules, are no longer being used. They are being replaced with blue lidded ridged bins, as shown in the alert.
As you will read in the alert sent out today, the layout of the pouches is being altered to try to address the high number of ampoule breakages in the pouches. This is a short-term measure and we are reviewing the cardiac pouch for a longer term solution but we need to take action now to address this, as it poses a risk to both staff and patients. If you have any queries on this, please email
The safe and secure handling of medicines is the responsibility of every healthcare professional, who must ensure that they work within their professional guidelines, ethics and codes of conduct. The four core principles that underpin the safe and secure handling of medicines are Establish governance arrangements – ‘say what we do and why we do it’ Ensure capacity and capability – ‘train people a
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust would like to thank the public for their support at this year’s Brighton and Hove Pride event. The Trust would also like to thank all staff and volunteers who worked across what is always a busy weekend both out on the road and in the Trust’s control centres. More than 100 staff, including the Trust’s chief executive Daren Mochrie attended th
Dear Colleagues, I am writing to you today to share copies of both the full and summary reports into bullying and harassment within SECAmb that the Trust commissioned from Professor Duncan Lewis. Bullying & Harassment at SECAmb NHS Foundation Trust: An Independent Report Bullying & Harassment at SECAmb NHS Foundation Trust: A report of key findings to staff These will be published on our