Impact of a competency based curriculum on quality improvement among internal medicine residents

"Teaching quality improvement (QI) principles during residency is an important component of promoting patient safety and improving quality of care. The literature on QI curricula for internal medicine residents is limited. We sought to evaluate the impact of a competency based curriculum on QI among internal medicine residents."

Impact of a competency based curriculum on quality improvement among internal medicine residents
MC Fok, RY Wong
BMC Medical Education 2014, 14:252  doi:10.1186/s12909-014-0252-7

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Medicines optimisation: helping patients to make the most of medicines

"Medicines optimisation is about ensuring that the right patients get the right choice of medicine, at the right time."

Medicines optimisation: helping patients to make the most of medicines
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
May 2013

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Providing community-based health practitioners with timely and accurate discharge medicines information

"The Medicines Information Transfer Fax (MITF) is an effective approach for the timely delivery of accurate discharge medicines information to community-based practitioners responsible for the patient's ongoing care."

Providing community-based health practitioners with timely and accurate discharge medicines information
AV Gilbert, B Patel, M Morrow, D Williams, MS Roberts, AL Gilbert
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:453

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Use of NICE appraised medicines in the NHS in England

"As part of the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) agreement which came into operation on 1 January 2009, the Department of Health (DH) and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry agreed that the DH would review the variation in uptake of selected medicines in the NHS in England."

Use of NICE appraised medicines in the NHS in England – 2010 and 2011, experimental statistics
The Information Centre for Health and Social Care
October 2012

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Keeping patients safe when they transfer between care providers

"Improving the transfer of information about medicines across all care settings should help to reduce incidents of avoidable harm to patients, improving patient safety and contributing to a reduction in avoidable medicines related admissions and readmissions to hospital."

Keeping patients safe when they transfer between care providers - getting the medicines right
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
June 2012

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Department of Health consultation on value-based system of pricing medicines

"The Department of Health is consulting on proposals for a new value-based system of pricing medicines which aims to give NHS patients better access to effective and innovative branded medicines. The consultation document sets out the principles that would underpin the move to value-based pricing, outlines how the new system could work across the UK and seeks views on a number of key issues."


A new value-based approach to the pricing of branded medicines - a consultation
Department of Health
December 2010

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All responses to this public consultation must be received by 17 March 2011.