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Medication Errors More than 40,000 a Year
22/Sep/2006: A query from The Healthcare Commission to The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has reported that more than 40,000 medications have been erroneously dispensed to patients for the past 12 months in England and Wales.
Urgent steps need to be taken to reduce this alarming problem.
A NPSA spokeswoman said that the errors that occurred were in the type of drugs dispensed and the dosage of the drugs. And this made up 95% of the medication errors. The erroneous medication report indicated that 80% of the errors did not cause any harm, 15% caused some harm and around 5% caused moderate or severe harm.
The Healthcare Commission has called for a rapid improvement on how drugs are prescribed and dispensed before any damage is done.
Despite the report, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health said: "Patient safety is paramount.
The vast majority of medication is prescribed, dispensed and administered safely and, as the Healthcare Commission has highlighted, in the majority of cases where medication errors have been made, there was no serious consequence for the patient.”
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