Pharmacy professionals Learning Library: time critical medication
Patients with Parkinson's are at risk of significant harm if they don't get their medication on time, every time. Explore our courses, articles, and resources about time critical medication for pharmacy professionals.
Online courses
Get it on Time - Parkinson's medication
- For experienced pharmacy professionals with prior Parkinson's knowledge.
- Provided by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Parkinson's UK Excellence Network.
This free online course teaches hospital staff about Parkinson's symptoms, treatments and the importance of medication timing. This course will take a minimum of 1 hour to complete.
Sign up to the Get it on Time - Parkinson's medication course.
Resources
Time critical medication and Get It On Time campaign resources
- For all pharmacy professionals.
- Provided by the Parkinson's UK Excellence Network.
Discover tools, resources and learning to support you to deliver time critical medication to people with Parkinson's.
Access the Time critical medication and Get It On Time campaign resources.
Key information for hospital pharmacists booklet
- For all pharmacy professionals.
- Provided by the Parkinson's UK Excellence Network.
This booklet is for hospital pharmacists and highlights ways a pharmacy can ensure Parkinson's medications are managed effectively during a hospital admission.
Read our key information for hospital pharmacists booklet.
Hospital pharmacy Parkinson's time critical medication guide
- For all pharmacy professionals.
- Provided by the Parkinson's UK Excellence Network.
A guide to support hospital pharmacy staff in implementing time critical Parkinson’s medication management.
View the hospital pharmacy Parkinson's time critical medication guide.
Medicines optimisation consensus statement
- For experienced pharmacy professionals with prior Parkinson's knowledge.
- Provided by the Parkinson's UK Excellence Network.
This consensus statement outlines the key medicines management issues that may face people with Parkinson's who are admitted to hospital.
Read the medicines optimisation consensus statement.
Electronic prescribing: how it can improve the delivery of time critical medications
- For all pharmacy professionals.
- Provided by the Parkinson's UK Excellence Network and NHS Ayrshire & Arran.
In this best practice case study, the team at NHS Ayrshire & Arran hospitals shares how electronic prescribing has played a vital role in improving patient care and safety.
Watch a 1 hour webinar with the NHS Ayrshire & Arran hospitals on the Neurology Academy website.
Articles
Get Parkinson’s medications on time: the Leeds QI project
- For all pharmacy professionals.
- Provided by the British Geriatrics Society.
This journal article explores what happens when Parkinson's medication is not delivered on time and how Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust's quality improvement project successfully reduced time critical medication delays.
Read Get Parkinson’s medications on time: the Leeds QI project on the Oxford Academic website.
Webinars
Medication safety across the system: time critical medicines
- For all pharmacy professionals.
- Provided by Specialist Pharmacy Service.
This webinar covers current medication safety challenges within healthcare, focusing on time critical medicines.
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