Medication Safety Group clinician updates: a novel teaching programme to bridge the gap between the prescriber and the trust

This project aimed to develop, implement and evaluate a novel medication safety teaching programme focused on updating foundation doctors about local medication-related patient safety issues and engaging them in trust-wide medication safety initiatives. The Medication Safety Group (MSG) is a multidisciplinary panel responsible for comprehensively assessing and managing all medication-related factors associated with patient safety risks within our major acute hospital trust. Historically, dissemination of information from the MSG has been via ad hoc trust-wide emails or intranet alerts, and a significant …