Helping frontline staff innovate and improve services
Medicines management dashboard Medicines management is a major part of the drive to improve quality and productivity across the NHS South East Coast region, covering Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Improving medication safety will result in a measurable impact not only on the quality of patient care but in reducing admissions caused by prescribing errors, adverse reactions or poor medicines compliance. Likewise, through improvements in prescribing efficiency, addressing issues such as drug wastage, considerable quality and productivity gains can be made. The Quality Observatory has worked closely with medicines management and other specialist colleagues to develop a comprehensive dashboard that gives an overview at PCT, county and regional level of historical and current performance on a range of quality, activity, workforce and finance indicators. Taken as a whole, the dashboard builds up a picture of medicines usage across the area and helps users identify areas for improvement and benchmark themselves against their neighbours. This leaflet describes what is in the medicines management dashboard and, on the back, how you can access it.
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