Medication Safety

Benztropine injection for acute dystonic reactions

20 May 2026SPS has developed this resource to support healthcare professionals in managing the discontinuation of procyclidine injection.

Collaboration opportunities to improve medication safety

20 May 2026Practical guidance on effective collaboration opportunities to promote medication safety improvements

Accessing resources for patients on high risk medicines

20 May 2026A number of resources are available to support the safe use of high-risk medicines. Healthcare professionals should ensure they are available for their patients

Learning from medication safety events

20 May 2026Practical guidance to ensure learning from local safety events is translated into shared local and national learning.

Guidance

Medication safety

Resources, guidance and support to assess and improve medication safety culture, strategy and policy within the healthcare system.

Practice support for the Medication Safety Officer (MSO)

11 May 2026An infrastructure of support opportunities exists that MSOs should utilise to deliver their role most effectively

Safety considerations when switching insulin products

6 May 2026Healthcare professionals should be aware of the risks and safe practice principles when switching insulin products.

Managing the risk of confusion between insulin products

6 May 2026Increased awareness and embedding processes for safer use may reduce the risk of mis-selection and harms associated with insulin use.

Embedding the safer use of insulin

6 May 2026Implementation of national safety standards, alerts and guidance can help reduce preventable harm from insulin use.

Safer use of time critical medicines programme

6 May 2026An update on the programme's progress, including the quality improvement collaborative, wider community of practice and related outputs.