More than 200 million medication errors occur in NHS per year, now there’s a way to improve dispensing accuracy, reduce administration errors and improve adherence at the same time.

1. Safer Medicines
Paul Mayberry

2. clinically significant
errors
annually
66m
Medication Errors Report, 2018.
clinically significant
errors
in primary care
71%
medication errors
annually
237m
additional hospital
bed days
3.8m
of all errors
cause harm
27.8%
annual
cost to the NHS
£1.6b
Source: Prevalence and Economic Burden of Medication Errors in the NHS in England, 2018.

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Medication Errors Report:
Primary Care
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Prescribing
21.3%
Transition
1.4%
Dispensing
15.9%
Administration
54.4%
Monitoring
6.9%
Source: Prevalence and Economic Burden of Medication Errors in the NHS in England, 2018.

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Medication Errors Report:
Secondary Care
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Prescribing
8.5%
Transition
7.1%
Dispensing
2.9%
Administration
78.6%
Monitoring
2.9%
Source: Prevalence and Economic Burden of Medication Errors in the NHS in England, 2018.

5. of Type 2 Diabetics are non-adherent.
67%
An Added Problem:
Non-Adherence
annual NHS cost of treating preventable complications
of Type 2 Diabetes alone.
£500m
people do not take their medications correctly.
This percentage increases with age and the number of
medicines taken.
50%
= poor control + long-term complications.

6. ‒ Taking multiple medications can be
confusing.
‒ Incorrect medication can lead to hospital
admissions.
‒ Missed doses leads to lack of control
over their conditions and long-term
complications or catastrophic events.
Even motivated patients are at
risk…
‒ Manually sorting doses leads to errors.

7. Medication Errors Report:
Recommendations
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“Interventions to identify and reduce medication errors
need to be designed and implemented thoughtfully”
Source: Prevalence and Economic Burden of Medication Errors in the NHS in England, 2018.

8. 1. Improve dispensing accuracy
Using the latest robotic technology and image
recognition to reduce medication errors.
Dispensing easy-to-open, clearly labelled pouches
dispensed by dose, in the order they need to be
taken.
3. Improve adherence
Introducing PillTime
Using Unit Dose Dispensing and pouches to improve dispensing
accuracy, reduce administration errors and improve adherence.
2. Reduce administration errors
Medicines are pre-sorted by dose.

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Adherence
Clear messaging
improves adherence.
Medicines pre-sorted
by dose.
Administration
Robotic technology
and image recognition.
Dispensing
Safer Medicines
with PillTime
1 2 3

10. 1. Dispensing
Robots dispense medication into
pouches.
Every pouch is checked for 100%
accuracy using image recognition
technology.
Highly sensitive. Scans for shape,
size and colour using the latest
scanning techniques.
All images are stored securely,
allowing full audit.

11. 2. Administration
No manual sorting.
No errors introduced.
Less confusion.
Accuracy assured.
Everything needed for a particular dose is in one
pouch, clearly labelled with the contents and day,
date and time of dose.

12. 3. Adherence
Dosing time clearly marked.
No confusion over when or what medicines
need to be taken.
Removes potential of missing doses or double
doses.
Better control and fewer long-term complications.
Increased patient and carer confidence.
Increased patient independence.

13. Hospital Dispensing
Many patients will either enter hospital with
compliance aids or present additional
medication needs during their stay.
The issues:
‒ Tray dispensing is time consuming
for pharmacists and technicians.
‒ Inefficient use of pharmacist time.
‒ Delayed discharge and causes bed
blocking.
‒ Increased risk of human error in
dispensing.

14. PillTime for Hospitals
Reduces pharmacy workload, freeing up
pharmacists to improve patient outcomes.
Faster discharge.
The efficiency and scalability of robotic
dispensing allows more patients to benefit
from compliance aids.
Improved dispensing accuracy
Improved adherence leads to fewer drug-
related re-admissions.
Reduces waste

15. Reduced GP surgery workload.
Combining EPS with eRD
Reduced medication waste.
v Identifies non-adherence and
enables pharmacist intervention.

16. Improved adherence = better
long-term patient outcomes.
Fewer acute GP appointments.
Benefits to GPs
Synchronised medication.
Reduced medicine waste.
PillTime works seamlessly with
EPS.

17. Visits de-coupled from medicine
administration time.
Benefits to Carers
Confidence in accurate medication
due to digital checking.
MAR charts provided.
Visibility of which medication has
been taken.
Carers can simply supervise
administration.

18. Reduces human error
Quicker and safer hospital
release and fewer re-
admissions
PillTime: Challenge Accepted
Saves NHS money
Peace of mind for
carers and loved ones
PillTime: Challenge Accepted
Reduces dispensing errors
Safer medicine administration
Improves adherence.
Fewer long-term complications.
Reduces waste.
Quicker and safer hospital discharge
and fewer re-admissions.
Improved efficiency allows for the
redeployment of staff.
Peace of mind for carers and loved
ones.

19. Visit www.pilltime.co.uk
Or call 0800 074 3303
Or email
hcp@pilltime.co.uk