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Reducing prescribing errors and improving patient safety requires a collaborative effort from all stakeholders, policy makers, healthcare systems, educators and technology companies. BPS Assessment works with all stakeholders to address the problems and deliver improvements in prescribing knowledge and practice.
Below are some reference items and documents we hope you will find helpful. We continue to grow our library of resources so please feel free to contact us with any additional information and materials that could support the understanding and delivery of safer prescribing.
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Pharmacy Leadership in the NHS in England
by Alison G Eggleton
Pharmacy Leadership in the NHS in England
Alison G Eggleton
In this free webinar, you will learn about the pharmacy leadership structure within the NHS in England, the key responsibilities of the main leadership roles, the ways in which pharmacy leadership works with other NHS leaders to plan and deliver services, and the professional development pathways in place that help pharmacists develop leadership skills throughout their career.
Moving a summative assessment to remote delivery during COVID-19: A case study of the UK Prescribing Safety Assessment
by Professor Simon Maxwell & Dr Lynne Bollington
Moving a summative assessment to remote delivery during COVID-19: A case study of the UK Prescribing Safety Assessment
Social distancing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic presents significant challenges to the delivery of summative assessments, and yet the need for medical students to graduate is greater than ever. This case study describes how the UK Prescribing Safety Assessment has adapted.
Prescribing Skills Assessment: Successful Remote Sittings 2020
UNSW Sydney
Prescribing Safety Assessment: a short review of its relationship to the Prescribing Competency Framework
by Professor Simon Maxwell
Prescribing Safety Assessment: a short review of its relationship to the Prescribing Competency Framework
The Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) is an online assessment of competency in the safe and effective use of medicines. This study looks at how the PSA aligns to meet the requirements of the Prescribing Competency Framework.
Prescribing Safety Assessment 2016: Delivery of a national prescribing assessment to 7343 UK final-year medical students
by Professor Simon Maxwell
Prescribing Safety Assessment 2016: Delivery of a national prescribing assessment to 7343 UK final-year medical students
The Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) has been developed as an assessment of competence in relation to prescribing and supervising the use of medicines. This report describes the delivery of the PSA to all UK final-year medical students in 2016 (PSA2016).
Medication Without Harm: the third Global Patient Safety Challenge
by WHO
A Competency Framework for all Prescribers
by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
A Competency Framework for all Prescribers
A single prescribing competency framework was published by the National Prescribing Centre/National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in 2012. NICE and Health Education England approached the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) to manage the update of the framework on behalf of all the prescribing professions in the UK.
Hospital readmissions, mortality and potentially inappropriate prescribing: a retrospective study of older adults discharged from hospital
- David Counter, James W. T. Millar, James S. McLay
- 09 May 2018
Reducing potentially inappropriate drug prescribing in nursing home residents: effectiveness of a geriatric intervention
- Charléne Cool, Philippe Cestac, Cécile McCambridge, Laure Rouch, Philipe de Souto, Barreto Yves Rolland, Maryse Lapeyre-Mestre
- 01 April 2018
Effects of training physicians in electronic prescribing in the outpatient setting on clinical, learning and behavioural outcomes: a cluster randomized trial
- David Counter, James W. T. Millar, James S. McLay, F. van Stiphout, J. E. F. Zwart-van Rijkom, J. Versmissen, H. Koffijberg, J. E. C. M. Aarts I. H. van der Sijs, T. van Gelder, R. A. de Man, C. B. Roes, A. C. G. Egberts, E. W. M. T. ter Braak
- 04 February 2018
Impact of antimicrobial stewardship programme on hospitalized patients at the intensive care unit: a prospective audit and feedback study
- Maher R. Khdour, Hussein O. Hallak, Mamoon A. Aldeyab, Mowaffaq A. Nasif, Aliaa M. Khalili Ahamad A. Dallashi, Mohammad B. Khofash, Michael G. Scott
- 13 December 2017
Incidence and cost of medication harm in older adults following hospital discharge: a multicentre prospective study in the UK
- Nikesh Parekh, Khalid Ali, Jennifer M. Stevenson, J. Graham Davies, Rebekah Schiff Tischa Van der Cammen, Jatinder Harchowal, James Raftery, Chakravarthi Rajkumar on behalf of the PRIME study group
- 22 May 2018
Systematic review of predictive risk models for adverse drug events in hospitalized patients
- Nazanin Falconer, Michael Barras, Neil Cottrell
- 16 January 2018
Oxycodone-induced tolerance to respiratory depression: reversal by ethanol, pregabalin and protein kinase C inhibition
- Rob Hill, William L Dewey, Eamonn Kelly, Graeme Henderson
- 25 March 2018
Involvement of CYP1B1 in interferon ?-induced alterations of epithelial barrier integrity
- Mireille Alhouayek, Sandra Gouveia-Figueira, Marie-Louise Hammarström, Christopher J Fowler
- 12 December 2017
Activity of novel lipid glycine transporter inhibitors on synaptic signalling in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord
- Bryony L Winters, Tristan Rawling, Robert J Vandenberg, Macdonald J Christie, Rebecca F Bhola, Wendy L Imlach
- 02 March 2018
1,3,6,7-Tetrahydroxy-8-prenylxanthone ameliorates inflammatory responses resulting from the paracrine interaction of adipocytes and macrophages
- Bryony L Winters, Tristan Rawling, Robert J Vandenberg, Macdonald J Christie, Rebecca F Bhola, Wendy L Imlach
- 18 February 2018
The current state of GPCR-based drug discovery to treat metabolic disease
- Kyle W Sloop, Paul J Emmerson, Michael A Statnick, Francis S Willard
- 02 February 2018
Antidepressant-like effects of BU10119, a novel buprenorphine analogue with mixed ?/? receptor antagonist properties, in mice
- Abdulrahman Almatroudi, Mehrnoosh Ostovar, Christopher P Bailey, Stephen M Husbands, Sarah J Bailey
- 01 October 2017
Differential effects of selective agonists of neuromedin U1 and U2 receptors in obese and diabetic mice
- Hiroaki Nagai, Tomoko Kaisho, Kotaro Yokoyama, Tomoko Asakawa, Hisashi Fujita, Kouta Matsumiya, Jiro Noguchi, Kazue Tsuchimori, Naoki Nishizawa, Yoko Kanematsu?Yamaki, Katsuko Dote, Hiroshi Inooka, Jun?ichi Sakamoto, Tetsuya Ohtaki, Taiji Asami, Shiro Takekawa
- 22 October 2017
Opioid-induced inhibition of the human 5-HT and noradrenaline transporters in vitro: link to clinical reports of serotonin syndro
- Anna Rickli, Evangelia Liakoni, Marius C Hoener, Matthias E Liechti
- 06 December 2017
Antibiotic-induced dysbiosis of the microbiota impairs gut neuromuscular function in juvenile mice
- Valentina Caputi, Ilaria Marsilio, Viviana Filpa, Silvia Cerantola, Genny Orso, Michela Bistoletti, Nicola Paccagnella, Sara De Martin, Monica Montopoli, Stefano Dall\'Acqua, Francesca Crema, Iole-Maria Di Gangi, Francesca Galuppini, Isabella Lante, Sara Bogialli, Massimo Rugge, Patrizia Debetto, Cristina Giaroni, Maria Cecilia Giron
- 29 July 2017
The dynamic interaction between pain and opioid misuse
- Adrianne R Wilson?Poe
- 11 June 2017
Anti-ageing active ingredients from herbs and nutraceuticals used in traditional Chinese medicine: pharmacological mechanisms and implications for drug discovery
- Chun-Yan Shen, Jian-Guo Jiang, Li Yang, Da-Wei Wang, Wei Zhu
- 23 September 2016
The Warburg effect and drug resistance
- Bhaskar Bhattacharya, Mohd Feroz Mohd Omar, Richie Soong
- 10 January 2016
Blood-brain and retinal barriers show dissimilar ABC transporter impacts and concealed effect of P-glycoprotein on a novel verapamil influx carrier
- Hélène Chapy, Bruno Saubaméa, Nicolas Tournier, Fanchon Bourasset, Francine Behar?Cohen, Xavier Declèves, Jean-Michel Scherrmann, Salvatore Cisternino
- 27 October 2015
Undergraduate preparation for prescribing: the views of 2413 UK medical students and recent graduates
- Amy Heaton, David J Webb, Simon Maxwell
- 19 May 2008
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