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 in the attached document here (appendix 2)

End of Life Controlled Drugs Audits

  • Safe destruction of Controlled drugs audited in line with the new CD procedure . The audit is under review to include all aspects of the procedure. 

Antimicrobial Prescribing (Inpatients) Audits

  • Quarterly audits carried out by MMT
  • The audit tool can be found in the attached document here

Antimicrobial Prescribing (Walk in Centres) Audits

  • Quarterly audits to be piloted on Amat October 2024 

Safe and Secure Medicines Audits

  • At least annual audits carried out by the MMT.
  • Quarterly spot checks will be carried out by individual teams .
  • Findings and action plans are reported via AMaT

 

National PGD Data Collection Audit Tool

PGD audits 

Managed by Trust PGD group on a rolling schedule. PGD reports and details on compliance can be found on the PGD teams channel. Contact Michelle Hodgkinson for access. 

Audit schedule and reporting is managed by the PGD working group 

Medicines Managment lead : Fernando Serra-Esgaio

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 and the audit team.

The POMH ready reckonner for the High Dose antipsychotics is available from the Medicines Managment team.

The schedule for the POMH audits can be found by clicking on the links below:

Trust reports can be accessesed below by clinking on the links below:

Medicines Management Audit Lead: Michelle Hodgkinson 

michelle.hodgkinson@merseycare.nhs.uk