About the event

This interactive session is part of the ‘Medication Safety Across the System’ (MSATS) series aimed at healthcare professionals, working in any sector with a role or passion for medication safety and/or involved in medicines use.

Our speakers will share innovative practices addressing safe use of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) to inspire and equip the audience ready for translation and replication across systems.

Why it’s important 

There are known risks associated with the use of DOACs. Harms continue to be reported across the system. 

Implementation of safety strategies to support the safe use of DOACs requires a collaborative and system wide approach to ensure safe and sustainable safety improvements. 

What will be covered 

  • A discussion of factors that add complexities to the safe prescribing, supply and administration of DOACs.
  • A ‘lived experience’ to understand the impact of these complexities when individuals cross care boundaries and continue their medicines.  
  • A discussion of high risk scenarios where patients on DOACs require additional planning and delegation of responsibilities to ensure safe use.
  • Shared exemplar practices related to improving the safety with DOAC use, which will allow for reflection on local practice and consideration for implementation at a local and system level. 
  • Opportunities to network with peers to inform the development of appropriate local and system wide responses, to enhance the safe use of DOACs. 

Learning Outcomes

  • Articulate key safety issues related to the prescribing or supply of DOACs and the safe monitoring across all care boundaries.  
  • Understand the importance of clear communication of agreed treatment plan across care boundaries.  
  • Understand the importance of good written and verbal communication to patients and carers along the patient pathway.  
  • Reflect on examples shared and identify actions or responses to recommend locally, in order to improve safe practice.

Speakers

A range of speakers from SPS and other organisations will help to run this event.

Non-SPS Speakers

Professor Roopen Arya – Keynote

Professor of Thrombosis and Haemostasis and Clinical Director for Haematological Medicine at King’s College Hospital

Ruth Dales

Senior Improvement Manager, Q Member and Patient Safety Specialist, Medicines Safety Improvement Programme, NHS England

Mark Donley

Lead Pharmacy Technician for Population Health Planning ICB in Leeds, Principal Pharmacy Technician NHS West Yorkshire ICB

Wendy Sunter

Consultant Pharmacist: Anticoagulation and Thrombosis, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Sejal Parekh

Programme Manager, NHS England

Victoria Speed

Specialist Anticoagulation Pharmacist, King’s College Hospital London

Rosalind Byrne

Principal Pharmacist Anticoagulation, King’s College Hospital London

SPS Speakers

 

Learn more about SPS team members who are speaking.