\n NHS trust leaders heard that the fridge in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust pharmacy department did not have an alarm to alert staff.\n<\/p>\n
\n Professor Trevor Purt, vice chair of SaTH, told the trust board meeting on Thursday (March 12) about the incident.\n<\/p>\n
\n It had been reported to the SaTH audit and risk assurance committee which was told that it was left open \u2018inadvertently.\u2019\n<\/p>\n
\n He said it lead to the meds being \u2018effectively written off’.\n<\/p>\n
\n Board papers noted that the costs of pharmacy items, wastage and write-offs \u2018remained a concern\u2019.\n<\/p>\n
\n The committee report reads: \u201cThe committee was advised of a pharmacy fridge door which was recently inadvertently left ajar and led to \u00a325,000 of medication being rendered unusable.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHowever, regarding pharmacy wastage, it was noted that several mitigations had been identified which could save a significant amount of money for the trust; a business case was in the process of being developed, which if successful, would increase the capacity for medicines recycling, leading to less wastage.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n After the meeting a spokesperson for The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust said: \u201cThe trust is committed to reducing waste to ensure value for money and is always looking for new opportunities, including within pharmacy.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe overall cost of pharmacy waste remains around the trust\u2019s target and while it has increased slightly, this is due to an increase in costs of purchasing medicines.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHS trust leaders heard that the fridge in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust pharmacy department did…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377],"class_list":["post-533927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}