Design a process for inter-facility medical logistics that clinical staff can follow without obstructing care.
Managing Medical Logistics Between Branches and Health Facilities
A senior-level treatment of inter-facility medical logistics, focused on what changes outcomes.
Course Overview
Accreditation bodies assess inter-facility medical logistics on documented evidence of consistent practice. Variation in this area of health and pharmaceutical services between shifts and sites is where avoidable harm lives. The programme is built to be used, and every section of this aspect of health and pharmaceutical services it covers ends in something applicable. Progress on inter-facility medical logistics is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. Mature organisations treat this part of health and pharmaceutical services as a standing capability rather than a project that finishes. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for inter-facility medical logistics. Participants apply this strand of health and pharmaceutical services to their own clinical service throughout, so the output is directly usable. It ends with a prioritised list of changes to this aspect of health and pharmaceutical services that the participant is prepared to defend internally.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Prepare the documented evidence accreditation assessors expect on inter-facility medical logistics.
Apply root cause analysis to adverse events involving inter-facility medical logistics.
Handle the trade-offs in inter-facility medical logistics between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
Measure patient experience of inter-facility medical logistics and act on what it shows.
Anticipate the objections that inter-facility medical logistics will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Establish what evidence would demonstrate that inter-facility medical logistics is under control.
Who Should Attend
Pharmacists and pharmacy managers involved in inter-facility medical logistics.
Regulatory affairs specialists handling inter-facility medical logistics.
Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to inter-facility medical logistics that has grown up informally.
Members of committees that take decisions affecting inter-facility medical logistics.
Quality and patient safety officers monitoring inter-facility medical logistics.
Clinical department heads responsible for inter-facility medical logistics.
Course Modules
Inter-facility medical logistics: confidentiality, consent and ethics
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Investigating an adverse event involving inter-facility medical logistics
- Close out actions on inter-facility medical logistics rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Map the handovers in inter-facility medical logistics between functions and secure them.
- Confirm the incident reporting route for inter-facility medical logistics is quick and non-punitive.
- Plan continuity of inter-facility medical logistics during surge and outbreak conditions.
Session 2The cost of inter-facility medical logistics and how to present it
- Set the review interval for inter-facility medical logistics and who attends.
- Define acceptance criteria for inter-facility medical logistics in advance.
- Confirm that reporting on inter-facility medical logistics reaches the people who can act.
- Verify cold chain and storage conditions for materials used in inter-facility medical logistics.
Inter-facility medical logistics: clinical process design and workflow
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Consent, confidentiality and ethics in inter-facility medical logistics
- Confirm licensing and regulatory requirements applying to inter-facility medical logistics are met.
- Map the clinical workflow for inter-facility medical logistics as it is actually performed.
- Verify six months later that changes to inter-facility medical logistics have held.
- Select quality indicators for inter-facility medical logistics that measure outcome rather than activity.
Session 2Reviewing inter-facility medical logistics when nothing has gone wrong
- Match staffing levels on inter-facility medical logistics to measured demand across the week.
- Apply structured root cause analysis to the last adverse event involving inter-facility medical logistics.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to inter-facility medical logistics.
- Rehearse the briefing on inter-facility medical logistics that would follow an incident.
Inter-facility medical logistics: regulation, licensing and accreditation evidence
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Choosing indicators for inter-facility medical logistics that reflect outcome
- Check that inter-facility medical logistics still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to inter-facility medical logistics will be introduced.
- Close the loop: confirm changes to inter-facility medical logistics improved the indicator they targeted.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on inter-facility medical logistics.
Session 2The evidence assessors will ask for on inter-facility medical logistics
- Confirm competence and continuing development for staff delivering inter-facility medical logistics.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates inter-facility medical logistics is under control.
- Identify infection transmission risks created by inter-facility medical logistics and control them.
- Agree what will be standardised in inter-facility medical logistics and what will not.
Inter-facility medical logistics: quality indicators and patient outcome
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Infection risk created by inter-facility medical logistics
- Build medication safety checks into inter-facility medical logistics at the point of highest risk.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in inter-facility medical logistics.
- Confirm patient data handled within inter-facility medical logistics meets confidentiality obligations.
- Define escalation criteria for deterioration detected through inter-facility medical logistics.
Session 2Making inter-facility medical logistics work when resources are constrained
- Remove steps in inter-facility medical logistics that add effort without adding assurance.
- Reduce unwarranted variation in inter-facility medical logistics between shifts and sites.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of inter-facility medical logistics current.
- Cost inter-facility medical logistics per episode and identify avoidable waste.
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- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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