Canadian Patient Safety Week runs from October 23-27. This year’s focus is on exploring a new approach to patient safety, grounded in learning and acting to create safer care and reducing unintended physical and psychological harms, including those caused by culturally unsafe care.
The Practice Review Program (PRP) has recently introduced community pharmacy review criteria for drug administration. During reviews, Compliance Officers are reviewing drug administration services to ensure that pharmacists are practicing in accordance with the established standards, limits and conditions. Compliance Officers may identify areas of non-compliance, for which they will then work with pharmacy managers to ensure deficiencies are addressed through establishment and implementation of corrective measures.
This article will focus on some of the early findings regarding areas of non-compliance observed by Compliance Officers when reviewing these services.