PrescQIPP medicines safety resources
Looking for resources to improve medicines safety in your practice or organisation? Whether you’re exploring medicines safety issues or working as a Medicines Safety Officer, PrescQIPP offers a wide range of evidence-based resources and e-learning courses to support you.
Evidence based resources
Focusing on medicines safety is a part of the effective management of medicines on an individual and population basis with the aim to reduce risk of error and harm.
Our medicines safety webkit collates the wealth of resources PrescQIPP have available – bulletins, webinars, data and shared good practice focussing on a range of different medicines.
Medicines safety is integral in the evidence based clinical bulletins we produce and we have published resources specifically focused on medicines safety. Some recent examples include –
- Medicines safety
- Medicines without harm
- Anticholinergic burden
- Stopping overmedication of psychotropic drugs
- Insulin
- Look-alike sound-alike prescribing errors
- Reducing opioid prescribing in chronic pain
If you want in-depth learning on a topic, take a look at our bespoke e-learning courses.
e-learning courses
PrescQIPP e-learning courses have been completed by over 40,000 professionals across the UK and beyond including GPs, nurse prescribers, PCN / practice pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, community pharmacists and care home staff and social care providers. All our courses are CPD accredited.
Topics covered include –
Clinical – anticholinergic burden, anticoagulation, asthma, dependence forming medications, reducing opioid prescribing in chronic pain
Medication safety - look-alike sound-alike error awareness and prevention
Our e-learning courses are not part of the subscription but can be purchased at discounted NHS prices on our e-learning store.
Podcast
To hear more national medication safety initiatives, the latest Talking Meds podcast launching on 1st May 2026, is with Emma Kirk who is the Medication Safety Officer (MSO) Network Lead. Emma provides strategic support to MSOs across England, driving forward the national medication safety agenda. Her work focuses on advancing safer use of medicines through education, collaboration and system level improvement across the NHS.
Medication Safety Virtual professional group (VPG)
If you are working on a medicines safety project you would like to share with others, or want to network with other healthcare professionals with an interest in medicines safety, join the PrescQIPP medication safety network VPG. Every 3 months we meet for a 1 hour webinar where you can connect and share experiences on a range of important topics and build relationships with peers.
Who we are
PrescQIPP is a not for profit company funded by the NHS for the NHS. We produce a huge range of evidence based resources and practical implementation tools to help healthcare professionals improve patient care.
We have a “do once and share” ethos to reduce unnecessary duplication and variation in the NHS.
What we do
PrescQIPP primarily provide a host of resources and data to help you optimise medicines, improve medicines safety and patient outcomes. In addition, PrescQIPP also create and deliver a range of training resources to help upskill healthcare professionals to tackle medicines optimisation issues more confidently.
Who are our subscribers, who can use our resources
We have a UK wide subscriber base that includes all the English Integrated Care Boards (ICBs); Health boards (HBs) in Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and Jersey. We also have some Scottish HBs as subscribers.
The PrescQIPP membership benefits are freely available to ICB/HB Chief pharmacists and their teams, finance teams, pharmacists in acute, community and mental health trusts, GP practice staff, PCNs and clusters, care homes pharmacy professionals and all community pharmacists.
Register for access to PrescQIPP resources using your NHS email address.
Find out more
If you’re new to PrescQIPP, use our virtual induction webpage for information, tips and advice to get the most out of the PrescQIPP website and our community.
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