Here is a useful resource from the DSRU:
These interactive modules are intended for general practitioners, other doctors and pharmacists working in the United Kingdom. They have been accredited for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as follows :
* General Practitioners – The UK Conference of Educational Advisers Distance Based Learning Panel as an Accredited Learning Programme for [...]
Since July 2004, the National Patient Safety Agency has received 165 reports of patient safety incidents involving methotrexate. If you take methotrexate every day, you will die. You have to take it weekly. It also has serious side effects, which you can mitigate if you are vigilant in looking for them. Patient [...]
I’m currently attending the International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management in Lisbon. It’s a fascinating conference, full of very brainy people – well, they are brainier than me. Every so often, you bump into a drug safety equivalent of Stephen Hawking.
One of the interesting aspects of the meeting is that drug safety experts [...]
There’s a news report at the BBC about errors in NHS hospitals.
It is important to note that these 40,000 errors are only the tip of an iceberg, the amount of under-reporting will be large. For example, under-reporting of adverse drug reactions, which does not generally carry the same level of guilt or fear of litigation/disciplinary [...]
A non-drug related risk to the eye.
I’ve always had a thing about injuries to eyes (See my short short story, Things Happen). I can witness any amount of gore in a Zombie film, but watching Tom Cruise have that knife go near his eye in Mission Impossible II made me squirm. As did the [...]
Birmingham Mail columnist Maureen Messent told of how she she killed her Aunt earlier this year [see also this BBC report]:
our doctor, a family friend, left us a bottle of morphine. “Give her this as she needs it,” he said.
That night, during the awful small hours when the world seems so far away, her rasping [...]
The CSM West Midlands is no more. It has been renamed Yellow Card Centre West Midlands and has a nice new shiny url to go with it.
www.adr.org.uk.
Please update your bookmarks.
It must be something about me. After years of my friends telling me that Bill Gates was evil incarnate, and how I really ought to join the alternative Apple franchise, I took the plunge and bought a Macbook.
Since then the world has changed.
Apple are being now being denounced by The Independent as the nipples [...]