VicTAG - Medicines Roundtable

The Medicines Roundtable is an event hosted by VicTAG and Safer Care Victoria. It is for Victorian clinicians with an interest in medication safety and quality. It provides an opportunity to network with like-minded colleagues.

The 2019 Medicines Roundtable was held on Thursday 25^th July where attendees heard the latest on optimising management of anticoagulants, opioids and other high risk medicines, measuring and learning from medication errors, the not so easy questions emerging on how to deal with pharmaceutical waste in our hospitals and much more. The slides for the presentations are available below:

Welcome	Welcome presentation
Welcome	A/Prof Mary O’Reilly, Deputy Chair, Victorian Therapeutics Advisory Group
Anticoagulants	Reducing anticoagulant-related patient harm – the way forward Prof Andrew Wilson, Chief Medical Officer, Safer Care Victoria
Anticoagulants	Raising the bar for improvement in VTE prevention Sarah Charles, Melbourne Health
Chemotherapy Project	Chemotherapy audit toolkit Shaun O’Connor, Cancer Programs, DHHS
Pharmaceutical Waste	Understanding pharmaceutical waste management Rachel McConville, DHHS & Darlene Smith, Wimmera Health Care Group
Opioid Management	Challenges of safe postoperative opioid use in an era of "opioid crisis" Dr Charles Kim, Melbourne Health
	Victorian perspectives from a national survey of hospital opioid use Johanna de Wever, SHPA
	Safe Script - a real time prescription monitoring system in Victoria Matthew McCrone, DHHS
Improvement Science	Improvement science session/activity Monica Holdsworth, Safer Care Victoria