The Dispensing Accuracy Assessment as been designed by Pharmacy Workforce Development South (PWDS) in line with the standards set by the National Framework for Final Accuracy Checking of Dispensed Items.
The Dispensing Accuracy Assessment is used as a tool to ensure that pharmacy staff have been effectively trained to accurately label and dispense items prior to a final check being completed.
Successful completion of this assessment is also an entry requirement for pharmacy staff applying for the Final Accuracy Checking Programme (FACP) programme. It is designed to provide evidence of their dispensing accuracy before moving into an accuracy checking role.
The assessment is open to all pharmacy staff who have undertaken an in-house induction and dispensing training.
The overall aim of the Dispensing Accuracy Assessment is to prevent and reduce the incidence of dispensing errors and to ensure a good standard of dispensing accuracy for all staff involved in the dispensing process.
The assessment provides pharmacy departments and staff the opportunity to monitor labelling and dispensing accuracy against a defined standard in order to:
The overall aim of the Dispensing Accuracy Assessment is to prevent and reduce the incidence of dispensing errors.
The assessment enables all pharmacy staff to monitor their dispensing accuracy against a defined regional standard in order to:
To successfully complete the Dispensing Accuracy Assessment the staff member is required to accurately label and dispense a minimum of 200 items with no errors. Once the assessment has started the staff member should record the 200 labelled and dispensed items continuously using the item logs provided. Please see handbook and templates for further details.
The Dispensing Accuracy Assessment should ideally be carried out every two years however it is at the discretion of the Senior Pharmacy Manager’s local policy and guidance as to how often the Dispensing Accuracy Assessment is completed.
The Dispensing Accuracy Assessment can be used by the following staff members to demonstrate the ability to label and dispense accurately:
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200 second checked item log of correctly labelled and dispensed products.
Please note: dispensary managers should only issue the PWDS-approved Certificate of Achievement from this site as confirmation that their staff member has completed the most up to date version (version 8, March 2021) of the PWDS Dispensing Accuracy Assessment. The certificate must NOT be issued for any locally adapted, in-house variations of the assessment and PWDS accept no responsibility for any use of the certificate outside of the stated assessment criteria.
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