What is the value in doing the safety self-assessment more frequently?

The safety self-assessment is an informative quality improvement tool that helps a pharmacy track their efforts to enhance patient safety over time. It can be used proactively to identify areas of potential risk, enabling pharmacy teams to plan improvement activities effectively and demonstrate system improvements. Requiring its completion every two years supports consistency and makes it easier for pharmacies to manage and meet deadlines. It also improves a pharmacy’s ability to maintain a safety culture by benchmarking data and tracking trends that can help identify and prevent medication incidents.