This month sees the launch of our newest programme, ‘SCRIPT Safety’. The programme consists of a selection of existing SCRIPT modules that align with the WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge ‘Medication Without Harm’ and NHS Improvement’s medicines safety priority themes: high risk drugs; high-risk parts of the medicines use process and patients with the highest vulnerabilities.
Visit https://www.safeprescriber.org/script-safety/ to sign up and access for free with an NHS.uk or NHS.net address.
We have recently split the ‘Paediatric Prescribing’ module in our Medicine and Surgery portfolio into two modules, these are titled ‘Paediatric Practical Prescribing’ and ‘Paediatric Pharmacokinetics’. Following the introduction of the feedback form at the end of each...
In April, the SCRIPT team was invited to present a poster at the 8th Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) Midlands Medical Education Conference in Birmingham. The poster showcased a systematic review assessing the think aloud technique (a process...
A new module is in development aimed at supporting healthcare professionals who are new to the role of designated prescribing practitioner (DPP). Healthcare professionals who wish to become independent prescribers must complete an accredited independent prescribing...
We are delighted to announce that, as of February 2024, one million SCRIPT modules have been successfully completed by users! There are more active users and module completions than ever before. Since the start of SCRIPT in 2010, the programme has significantly...