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National patient safety alerts to be prioritised via @hsjnews hsj.co.uk/policy-and-reg…

A colleagues friend’s new toy! 😱

Joy of solo tea in London - Waterloo is sooooooo exciting!

One to check out if you are a user Safety Thermometer Strategic Review safetythermometer.nhs.uk/index.php/?opt…

NIHR Signal - Nurses and pharmacists can prescribe as effectively as doctors..... discover.dc.nihr.ac.uk/content/signal…

In case you missed it...! New national - Medicine safety: indicators for safer prescribing gov.uk/government/pub…

Digital informatics and early-career pharmacy professionals from @PJOnline_news pharmaceutical-journal.com//opinion/corre…

Ditch cranberry juice for urine infections bbc.co.uk/news/health-44…

Exclusive: Patients at risk as blood clot assessments decline via @hsjnews hsj.co.uk/quality-and-pe…

Loving the @HeathrowAirport departure boards for #Starwarsday

Medical errors in America kill more people than AIDS or drug overdoses. Here's why. vox.com/2015/1/29/7878…

Ontruzant (trastuzumab) for the treatment of early and metastatic breast cancer, and metastatic gastric cancer. Ontruzant is the first trastuzumab biosimilar recommended for approval by the CHMP. ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?…

BBC News - NHS overcharged by millions for key drug, says watchdog bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

Our #UHLPharmacy homecare team work with homecare & pharmaceutical companies to offer care direct to patient's at home or in the community, delivering specialist medication started in hospital

Appetite for developing Consultant Pharmacist roles to deliver STP Medicine Optimisation aspirations

Hearing about national perspective on current status and future plans for Consultant Pharmacists. Need to build capacity and measure pt outcomes #UHLpharmacy

Jeremy Hunt 3 things ctd 3. Innovation for safety - try to eliminate human error to better support staff & reduce system error - once we have something why can't we adopt at scale & pace e.g. Electronic prescribing - may reduce med errors by 8%

Jeremy Hunt 3 things ctd 2. Safety culture & open & transparent sharing for improvement both for families & staff - traumatic for all - need to learn from error. Need to support people

Jeremy Hunt says 3 things need to change 1. Spread best practice - we need to standardise , tension between mandation @ encouragement

Great agenda sorted by the Sheffield team twitter.com/HospChiefPharm…