The Short Life Working Group report makes recommendations for a programme of work to tackle medication error and improve medicine safety.
The Department of Health and Social Care also asked the Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions (EEPRU) to review the evidence on medication errors in England. You can find out more on the EEPRU website.
This patient group direction (PGD) template supports the administration of typhoid Vi polysaccharide vaccine to overseas travellers at risk of exposure to Salmonella enterica serovar typhi (S. typhi) in accordance with recommendations from the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC).
PGD template to support the provision of hepatitis A/typhoid (HepA/Typhoid) vaccine, for travel or in accordance with PHE hepatitis A temporary recommendations.
Section 2 of the Children and Social Work Act 2017 requires each local authority to consult on and publish a local offer for its care leavers. This guidance provides information for local authorities on the development of the local offer and an illustrative local offer.
The Children and Social Work Act 2017 introduced a new duty on local authorities, to provide PA support to all care leavers up to age 25, if they want this support. This document provides information to local authorities to assist them in implementing the new duty.