Drugs can help with many diseases - but the more of them you need, the more important it is to coordinate their intake. As this is not an easy task, it requires highly qualified specialists from a wide range of professions. A new master's programme at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg and Tübingen aims to do just that - the interdisciplinary medication safety course will start in the winter semester of 2022/23 and can be completed besides work. The universities will receive around 300,000€ from the German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) to set up the course. The Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Bonn is in charge.

Funding awarded! The groundbreaking SafetyFIRST pilot project will start in spring 2023. The aim is to set up a nationwide safety network with 24 centres from hospitals and specialist practices. The intention is to strengthen local interprofessional competence in the care of patients with oral anticancer therapy and to improve the medication safety (AMTS) in this area. The nationwide project is led by an AMTS competence centre of the University Hospital Erlangen, the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the University of Bonn. The Federal Ministry of Health is funding Safety-FIRST for three years with a total of 600,000€.