NIP-MedS: National Implementation Programme for Medication Safety
Development, review and implementation of measures to improve medication safety in three key areas
Medication errors pose significant risks to patients. The National Implementation Programme for Medication Safety (NIP-MedS) aims to ensure and improve medication safety throughout Switzerland in three key areas: safe handling of high-risk medications; reducing medication errors caused by confusion between medicines; safe management of medicines and medication when changes occur in the available drug supply.
The six-year programme will be carried out in four phases: development of practical and easy-to-implement measures and implementation strategies, piloting in a limited number of units, national scale-up and evaluation and securing the long-term sustainability. All programme phases will be carried out for each of the three priority areas.
The Swiss Patient Safety Foundation is leading the programme on behalf of the Federal Quality Commission (FQC). The SCDH is supporting the programme, particularly in the development and testing of certain measures using simulations in a realistic test environment in its Living Lab. Practitioners, scientific partners, patients and relatives will be actively involved throughout the programme.
Output category
Project
Area of activity
Systems and processes
Offering
Simulation and co-prototyping