Conference Chairperson & Opening Remarks

Mary Kirwan, Lecturer and Barrister, RCSI 

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Managing and Investigating a Medication Incident

• Supports for staff who have made an error
• Principles of effective incident investigation
• Ensuring learning and action plans implemented from these learnings

Joanne Haswell, Barrister, Director of InPractice

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Medication Safety Incidents - The Role of Human Factors in Incident Causation

• Changing the thinking about improving practice
• How can an understanding of human factors reduce errors and improve safety?
• A medication error from a human factor perspective: a case study

John McElhinney,Group Quality & Patient Safety Manager, Saolta University Health Care Group

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Where To Prioritise Your Medication Error Reduction Programmes

• Focusing on the medication errors that cause the most harm to patients
• Identifying those with the highest vulnerabilities
• Monitoring medication errors and understanding impacts of intervention
• Patient safety defences

Ciara Kirke, Clinical Lead, National Medication Safety Programme

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Medication Errors at Transitions of Care – From Admission to Discharged from Hospital

• Identifying the prevalence of errors
• Classification and severity of errors
• Associations between patient factors and medication errors
• Communication between healthcare professionals
• Proposed solutions to reduce medication errors

Dr Laura Sahm, Vice Dean, MPharm Director and Senior Lecturer, UCC

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Adult Intensive Care Setting – Transition of Care - Do Interventions Improve Medication Safety and Patient Outcomes

• Patients on transition to and from the intensive care setting – Are they at risk of medication errors including unintentional medication discontinuation?
• Several interventions to reduce medication errors but what is the evidence that these interventions reduce errors and improve patient outcomes?

Dr. Suzanne McCarthy, Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, UCC, Ireland and Dr. Virginia Silvari, Pharmacist,Cork University Hospital

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The ‘Medication Safety Minute’ – Using Microlearning to Share Safety Messages

• The concept of microlearning (bite-sized learning nuggets delivered to mobile devices)
• The origin of this project
• How it is integrated into a broader medication safety strategy
• Practical aspects of its operation and delivery

Eileen Relihan,Medication Safety Facilitator, St James’s Hospital

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Improving Medication Safety and Deprescribing in Older People     

• Polypharmacy in older people and its associated risks
• Prescribing safely for older people with polypharmacy and multimorbidity: an overview of the guidelines
• Stopping medicines safely in older people: experiences from the SPPiRE trial

Dr Caroline McCarthy, Clinical Lecturer and Research Fellow, RCSI

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Medication Errors- Learning from Litigation Claims- Case Law

Marian Fogarty, Solicitor, Cantillon Solicitors