Variation in emergency medical supply chains between shifts and sites is where avoidable harm lives. In healthcare, a weakness in supply chains is eventually paid for by a patient. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about this area of health and pharmaceutical services under scrutiny. The level assumes working familiarity with the clinical service but no prior formal training in emergency medical supply chains. It establishes a shared vocabulary for the health and pharmaceutical services capability so that teams can disagree productively about it. Progress on supply chains is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of emergency medical supply chains and prepares them for it. The professional literature on supply chains converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. Work concludes with a self-assessment of the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Identify the failure points in emergency medical supply chains most likely to cause loss, and control them first.
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Build informed consent and ethics practice into supply chains.
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Estimate what emergency medical supply chains costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.
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Design a process for supply chains that clinical staff can follow without obstructing care.
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Communicate the purpose of emergency medical supply chains to those who have to comply with it.
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Audit supply chains in practice, not only in policy.
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Plan continuity of emergency medical supply chains during surge, outbreak and emergency.
Who Should Attend
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Pharmacists and pharmacy managers involved in emergency medical supply chains.
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Quality and patient safety officers monitoring supply chains.
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Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around emergency medical supply chains.
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Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in supply chains.
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Supply chain and biomedical staff supporting emergency medical supply chains.
