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UberMeds

2024. The UBERMeds project aims to enhance the service delivery of inpatient medication to the East Block surgical service at Nepean Hospital by November 2024.

Tags: Environmental sustainability, Medication, Efficiency

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/ubermeds

The potassium challenge

2025. The project team improved pain management and reduced waste associated with potassium transfusions through staff education.

Tags: Environmental sustainability, Medication

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/potassium-challenge

Modernising rural healthcare: Virtual antimicrobial stewardship rounding in action

2025. A pharmacist-led, virtual antimicrobial stewardship rounding program in rural NSW.

Tags: Medication

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/antimicrobrial-stewardship-rounding

MediREACH: Improving Medication Safety for Patients

2021. Murrumbidgee Local Health District developed a process to ensure all patients have a best possible medication history recorded on admission to hospital.

Tags: Patient safety, Medication

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/medireach

It Takes Two

2017. It Takes Two was designed to educate nursing staff and managers on NSW Health and local policies regarding medication handling, with the aim of improving patient safety in the emergency department.

Tags: Medication, Patient safety

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/it-takes-two

MEtabolic MOnitoring Whole Health in Mind

2019. Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network identified inconsistent metabolic monitoring as a patient safety risk, and resourced a project team to address this issue. Patients prescribed psychotropic medications are at increased risk of

Tags: Patient safety, Medication

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/metabolic-monitoring

Medication Reconciliation: A Prescription for Safety

2021. This project aims to reduce medication errors, by ensuring the patient’s medicines are accurately documented on admission to hospital and any changes are communicated to the patient and carer when they are discharged or transferred to another care

Tags: Medication, Patient safety

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/medication-reconciliation

Improving Medication Administration in Custody

2022. The Improving Medication Administration in Custody project improves the medication administration process for people in custody in NSW public correctional facilities.

Tags: Medication, Patient safety

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/improving-medication-in-custody

Patient’s Own Medications Handling Process

2021. By 31 December 2020, 80 of patients who surrender their own medications on admission to St Joseph Hospital will get their own medications checked at the point of discharge from the hospital.

Tags: Medication

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/patients-own-medications

Elimination of Hepatitis C in a Prison Setting

2021. The Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network introduced the first hepatitis C virus elimination program in the NSW correctional setting.

Tags: Alcohol and other drugs, Medication, Efficiency

https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/ie/projects/elimination-of-hepatitis-c