John James
11 Jul 2023 · Coroner Nadia Persaud · East London
The coroner's concerns
1. failure to monitor medication administration
“The refusal of anti-coagulation medication was not brought to the attention of medical staff”
Responses
2023-0242-Response-from-Bart-Health-NHS-Trust-1.pdf ↗· Barts Health NHS Trust
Stated action
“The electronic prescribing and medicines administration system (ePMA) currently has functionality (all of which is accessible via Millennium®) to reduce harm associated with missed or late medication administration. This includes visual aids in the form of a red tile if a dose is delayed by more than 2 hours. This visual flag is available to all users. Millenium training will be updated to reflect learning from this case to ensure that multi-professional teams know how to use the flag system to”