NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency

Purchasing for patient safety: Assessment of pre-filled injectable medicines

Dear Colleague,

We are conducting this research to enable an evaluation of the pre-filled injectables to reduce risk and improve patient safety. If you have not used these pre-filled injectable medicines, please forward this document on to a colleague that has done so.

Your views are of great value to us and completion of the questionnaire should take around 10 minutes of your time. The research is being conducted by an independent market research agency, Exodus Research which is a full member of the Market Research Society and abides strictly by its Code of Conduct. Your individual answers will not be revealed to the project team or any other individual/ organisation and will be reported collectively with all other respondents.

To complete this document electronically, please use your mouse to select the box against the answers that best meet your views or by typing in your answer. Alternatively, to complete the questionnaire manually, please print this document. Please return your completed form by 18 February 2008 (information on how to return the document is provided at the end of the questionnaire). Thank you in advance for your invaluable help.

If you would like a copy of the anonymised results of this research please give your email or name postal address opposite
1. Please provide the following information
Location. Please write in
Your job title. Please write in

Section 1 : Risk Management

2. How would you rate the safety of preparing Noradrenaline / Potassium?
Please tick one box for each. If you wish to make any specific safety concerns or further comments, please write in the last row /
Level of safety in preparing / Very poor / Poor / Quite poor / Adequate / Quite good / Good / Very good / Excellent /
Before the introduction of pre-filled / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
After the introduction of pre-filled / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
Comments:
3. How would you rate the safety of administering Noradrenaline /Potassium?
Please tick one box for each. If you wish to make any specific safety concerns or further comments, please write in the last row /
Level of safety in administering / Very poor / Poor / Quite poor / Adequate / Quite good / Good / Very good / Excellent /
Before the introduction of pre-filled / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
After the introduction of pre-filled / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
Comments:

Section 2 : Preparation and administration time

4. How would you rate the time taken in the preparation of Noradrenaline / Potassium ?
Please tick one box for each. If you wish to make any specific safety concerns or further comments, please write in the last row /
Time taken in preparing / Very poor / Poor / Quite poor / Adequate / Quite good / Good / Very good / Excellent /
Before the introduction of pre-filled / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
After the introduction of pre-filled / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
Comments:
5. How would you rate the time taken in the administration of Noradrenaline / Potassium?
Please tick one box for each. If you wish to make any specific safety concerns or further comments, please write in the last row /
Time taken in administering / Very poor / Poor / Quite poor / Adequate / Quite good / Good / Very good / Excellent /
Before the introduction of pre-filled / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
After the introduction of pre-filled / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
Comments:

Section 3 : Infection control

6. How would you rate infection control ?
Please tick one box for each. If you wish to make any specific safety concerns or further comments, please write in the last row /
Rating of potential issues / Very poor / Poor / Quite poor / Adequate / Quite good / Good / Very good / Excellent /
Before the introduction of pre-filled / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
After the introduction of pre-filled / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
Comments:

Section 4: Quality assurance

7. How confident are you regarding the accuracy of the drug and concentration of Noradrenaline/Potassium?
Please tick one box for each. If you wish to make any specific safety concerns or further comments, please write in the last row /
Rating of confidence / Very poor / Poor / Quite poor / Adequate / Quite good / Good / Very good / Excellent /
Before the introduction of pre-filled / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
After the introduction of pre-filled / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
Comments:

Section 5 : Improving patient safety

17. Overall, which of the following do you consider to be the safer practice and why? / Pre-filled preparations (please state why below) / 1
Preparations mixed in the clinical area by staff (please state why below) / 2
If you would like to make any further comments on issues regarding the use of pre-filled preparations that may affect patient safety, please write in the space opposite. /

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

If completed electronically, please save your completed questionnaire as a Word document and return it by 18 February 2008 in one of the following ways. If completed manually, please post to the freepost address in (3) or fax to the number in (2) below:

1.  Send it as an attachment (otherwise the selected boxes will be deselected in transmission) to . OR

2.  Print and fax your form to 01934 750176 OR

3.  Print and free-post (no stamp required) to the following address:

Exodus Market Research Ltd

FREEPOST (SWB1735)

WESTON SUPER MARE

BS24 0ZZ

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