Safe Management of Controlled Drugs Audits

  • At least quarterly audits carried out by the MMT. Findings and action plans are reported via AMaT
  • The audit tool can be found here (appendix 2)

End of Life Controlled Drugs Audits

  • At least quarterly audits carried out by the MMT or the Corporate Governance Team dependant on the team

Antimicrobial Prescribing (Inpatients) Audits

  • Quarterly audits carried out by MMT
  • The audit tool can be found here

Antimicrobial Prescribing (Walk in Centres) Audits

  • Quarterly audits carried out by MMT

Safe and Secure Medicines Audits

  • At least annual audits carried out by the MMT. Findings and action plans are reported via AMaT
  • The audit tool can be found here (appendix 1)

National PGD Data Collection Audit Tool

The Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health (POMH) is a subscription based project that helps specialist mental health services across the UK improve their prescribing practice.

To achieve this, POMH develop audit-based Quality Improvement Programmes (QIPs) that focus on specific topics within mental health prescribing.

The Trust participate in POMH audits which are led by the medical team with oversight from the Medicines Management Team.